ISSUE V
cover art by Claire Guo
Poetry
DARREN C DEMAREE // Emily as We Shorten the Story, Emily as Some Sort of Ruin
SHON MAPP // So Sow
YUAN CHANGMING // Blue Gum
CARA WANG // Haibun for a War That Was Never Mine
CAITLIN BREEN // Demeter
KONRAD EHRESMAN // Gravity
MARK J. MITCHELL // Media
DS MAOLALAI // my guitar.
SHEILA E. MURPHY // porch swing
EMILY TONG // On Trash Day, 3 Miles Away From The Dead Deer
JOHN YARBROUGH // The River Ran Dry
SUPARNA HANDE // Gift to my future child
AMANDA MISKA // The Treachery of Images
Prose
SHOSHAUNA SHY // Postmarked
EMMA PATZ // Filler #5
TESSA SHEA WHITEHEAD // By Design
HELENA GONÇALO FERREIRA // Young Girl, Still in My Mother’s House
Nonfiction
BARRY YEDVOBNICK // To-do Lists
ALLY OKUN // Only a Matter of When
SARAH ELGATIAN // HIV and the End Times
RAYA YARBROUGH // Do Your Thing
MICHAEL AKUCHIE // No Such Thing as a Lasting Bond