Letter from the Editor

They are the writers and artists whose works I have returned to again and again.

Conor Barnes
In a Nightmare

In a nightmare I had forgotten your name

Conor Barnes
Somebody You Once Found Beautiful Isn't Anymore

It isn't because of his dirty clothes

Conor Barnes
Tell Them

tell them you're Amish, tell them you're a woman

Stephen Kingsnorth

Clime

We mostly oversaw sweep swathe

Stephen Kingsnorth
Today

I rested, news, not bothered such

Stephen Kingsnorth
Cold Front

I fear if I get too involved, the spirit will be wisp

Stephen Kingsnorth
Life's a Drag

Dissipation, my purple mood

Stephen Kingsnorth
Furtive

grief and sadness, dare not name

Stephen Kingsnorth
The Snicket

I heard cleared scouring mouth for spit

Stephen Kingsnorth
My Last Post

please help me leave when I am lost

Alyssa Cressotti
The Last Frontier

"Fuck off, Steve"

Greg Sendi
The Peshaman Fragments

altogether ill at ease about what's happening to us

Doug van Hooser
Hope never took the bait

Worked like a dog, rewarded like a rat / Pats on the back left a bruise

David Earl     Williams
Zombies of Xmas Past    Past-Due (and Future)

ChompChompChomp

Cliff Saunders
Keeping Quiet

To the moon I could cry or scream!

Doug van Hooser
Lemon Ecstasy

I always wanted to swallow ecstasy

David Earl Williams
#1 and #2 (After Grayson and the Other Post-Succession Civil War Poets and Wordifiers)

i remember th' filth, depravity, th' shorn cussed

Ivan de Monbrison
Untitled (with Translation)

Your mother is in a cage / barking there like a dog

Beth Kephart
Wide Awake at the Dog Hotel

bathroom so big I wished I'd remembered roller skates

David Earl Williams
It Was Fried Wonder Day

Ummm....mmmmm....mmmm

David Earl Williams
Interregnum

and have drunken fistfights/ in front of the open coffin

David Earl Williams
My Nature

100% unnatural, thank you very much

Lisa 
Rhodes-Ryabchich
Clowning

I sit here on this sandy beach next to a stray dog.

Lisa
Rhodes-Ryabchich
A Message from the Other Side

My dead ex-husbands worries of "is my mother still alive".

Stephen Sossaman
You're Next

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Get the fuck out of my life, she sang.

Stephen Sossaman
Chasing Lamborghinis

Word in the boys' restroom was that Miriam Lombardo promised to give a hand job to the contest winner.

Laura Zaino
Nothing Was Ever Really the Same Again

there was this one fluffy cloud I was really vibing with.

Mark Evan Chimsky
The Unrecorded Hour

I want you in the same way I want him

Mark Evan Chimsky
Wife Observing Husband After a Night of Not Making Love

He is more at home with a hand.

Kirsten Baltz
Ocean Gospel

Dressed in Sunday's best, I forget my rainboots, and ruin white tights

Michele Mekel
Quadriptych of Loss

Love blooms on the other side of glass

Michele Mekel
Modern Love at 50

I swipe - left, left, left, left, right

Paul Tanner
tit for tat

you know, the more I degrade you, the more I need you.

Alan Bern
I love you still

Alan Bern
awaiting

Alan Bern
another rusting

Alan Bern
such imprisonings

Edward Lee
Stripped of All We Know

Edward Lee
To Reach Beyond Limits

Edward Lee
A Hidden Daylight