June, 2026
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Grant Clauser,
Waterfall
Callie Plaxco,
Anemonoides sylvestris
Camille Norvaisas,
Mater Florum 
Emma-Jane Peterson,
Ephemeral
Susan Eyre Coppock,
Clos du Bois
Julia Lisella,
My Mother’s Handbag
Jacqueline West,
Long Distance
Barbara Daniels,
Swept Up
Michelle Geoga,
Investigations
Michael Malan,
Memorial Day
John Morrison,
Fresh Grief
Jennifer Stewart Miller,
Summer Afternoon on the Porch
J.D. McGee,
Loggerhead
Lana La Framboise,
My grandmothers and grandfathers
Melanie McCabe,
Regression
Lijia Xie,
Letter to a Father
Julie Weiss,
Time’s Great Treason
Sara Schraufnagel,
Liminal
Shannon K. Winston,
On Permanence, or Reading “Memoire on the Heliograph”
Lina Buividavičiūtė,
Translated from Lithuanian by the author and Ada Valaitis
Boogeyman
REVIEWS
Beth Brown Preston
Review of The Book of Alice: Poems, by Diamond Forde
COMING SOON
Peter Mladnic
The Lines Versus the Line: a review of The Squannacook at Dawn, by Richard Jordan