We pay homage to summer with Volume 23, Issue 3, which contains poems about passion, bluegills, Neruda, and stingrays—chance encounters with people, poems, and
How to keep passion alive until the end, on fire— I can’t find the flint, the matches, so it’s back to Neruda again,
My mother crouches at the end of the pier with a serrated knife, cutting into the flesh of a stingray my cousin gigged by
—for Lyn Hopper When I wake too early and hope and wait for more sleep, and dawn, a coyote, sneaks up on eloquent birds,