April, 2026
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Angie Crea O’Neal,
False Spring
Michael Hackney,
Summer Blooms Over a Ferris Wheel
V.P. Loggins,
New Dawn
Hilda Weiss,
A Prayer of Colors
Lake Angela,
Grace: Pruning the World Indoors
Nat Bottigheimer,
Vignette: Our Plot of Land
John A. Nieves,
Litany: Timelapse
Patricia Davis-Muffett,
Promise to the meadow
Subhaga Crystal Bacon,
Not Just the Dream, but the State of Things
Daniel Edward Moore,
Random Boy of Sorrows
Moriah Hampton,
Mine/Yours 
Jonathan Blunk,
Two Provençals
Lijia Xie,
Swallow’s Nest
Margaret Chula,
Interlude
Kari Gunter-Seymour,
Oh, Sorrow
Leonard Tuchilatu,
Translated by Romana Iorga
For You
Bern Mulvey,
Akiya
Dana Henry Martin,
The Eleventh Day of the Cruelest Month
Roger Camp,
Under the golden avocado
Shuly Cawood,
what the heart wants
REVIEWS
Emily Updegraff
Review of Your Mother’s Bear Gun by Corrie Williamson