August, 2021
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Jessica Freeman,
The Burden of the Dead
Nina C. Pelaez,
What is Near 
Jenny Hykes Jiang,
Three Years After the Adoption’s Finalization,
Contemplating Predestination
Hasan Alizadeh,
Letter 
Hasan Alizadeh,
Persephone
Susan Gubernat,
Ode to the Odes of Neruda
Laura-Gray Street
Tidewater
Maren O. Mitchell,
Depression, Viewed Objectively
Maren O. Mitchell,
Fecundity
Reese Conner,
Lewis
M. L. Brown,
Species
Joseph Fasano,
Psalm
Xiaoly Li,
Love Genes
Rich Ives,
If You Had No Legs, Children of Bertrand, What Would You Carry?
Lee Colin Thomas,
In the Garden
Susan Charkes,
Grass Song
Eric Paul Shaffer,
Traffic Accident on Main Street
Sarah Sullivan,
Also Heard at Church That Day
Wendy Drexler,
Traffic Jam on the 405 North
Dan Fliegel,
What the Poem Means
REVIEWS
Angela Gregory-Dribben,
“On the Seeing and the Succumbing”:
Bewildered by All This Broken Sky by Anna Scotti
Susana H. Case,
Review of The Weight of Bodily Touches, by Joseph Zaccardi
Anna Scotti,
Review of here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris