• Poetry

  Blessing of the Animals

  By Henry Walters

  We followed her in, a stray, the fattest & first, the temple cat./ In a niche by the altar she crouches, watches them come: the/ mad parade we’d wanted, this troupe of heretics — the ass,/ alpaca, gyrfalcon — unbroken line of celebrants, creatures ...
• Poetry

  Why Honey Matters

  By Ksenia Rychtycka

  Mother comes to me as I’m making honey cake, / measuring out sugar then whipping eggs. / Never mind that Mother left this earth / eighteen months earlier...
• Poetry

  In Transit

  By Rimas Uzgiris

  The trolley bus won’t go. / Its reins have fallen from the wires.
• Poetry

  Missing Buses

  By Maryann Corbett

  I miss things: swooping, diving, passionate voices/ in several African tongues, so far beyond me/ they might as well have beamed from the constellations.
• Poetry

  The Trek

  By Pui Ying Wong

  Here’s the river I stepped in more than twice.// I can’t see them but I know the boats/ are going by in the sturdy fog...
• Poetry

  Red Coat

  By R L Swihart

  And now you explore the hidden pockets and come up/ with a City Guide (in English) you picked up in Amsterdam./ Why did I keep that? Where were we going? But she’s/ not there to answer

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