Issue 28 | Spring 2023

Listen to This

David Wojciechowski

after Attention!, Janik, 1958

Not the sound of a real cricket, but an electric one. That’s what I’m hearing. The stone against stone. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a reason. We learned to hold hammers, then we learned to hold more. Strange the mind’s ability to learn aerodynamics. Stone to metal, metal to blood. The sounds become brass. Brass and canvas. We traveled this far on a thing we can’t see. We followed it to this point. Falling and then a sad, sad voice. A moan from the depths. Sounds grow faster, a crowd of people call for an end. The smoke clouds are the only real things we see.

About the Author

David WojciechowskiDavid Wojciechowski is the author of Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent (Gold Wake, 2017). His poems can be found in Bateau, HAD, Hobart, Rejection Letters, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. David is a freelance graphic designer and can be found at davidwojo.com and on Twitter @MrWojoRising.

Issue 28 Cover

Prose

Excerpt from Marriage Marina Mariasch, translated by Ellen Jones

Torch Song of Myself Dale Peck

The House Nikki Barnhart

Excerpt from Fishflies: the Men of the Riverhouse Marream Krollos

The Chinkhoswe J.G. Jesman

Tijuana Victoria Ballesteros

Agónico Marcial, 1960 - 1994 Israel Bonilla

Excerpt from Fieldwork Vilde Fastvold, translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen

Reflections in a Window Cástulo Aceves, translated by Michael Langdon

The Waiting Dreamer Blue Neustifter

It Being Fall Matthew Roberson

Plans for a Project Bo Huston

Poetry

As Beautiful As It Is Evan Williams

every woman is a perfect gorgeous angel and every man is just some guy Sophie Bebeau

Big Tragedies, Little Tragedies & Listen to This David Wojciechowski

A Sudden Set of Stairs & Buy the Buoy Evan Nicholls

Hyde Lake, Memphis Ellis Elliott

Cover Art

A Different Recollection Than Yours Edward Lee

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