Winter 2020 | 69.2

POETRY

NATALIE HOMER
Fear of Loss at Any Moment | 8
Dormancies | 9

KELLY R. SAMUELS
For Fire Moss (C. purpureus) | 10
For Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) | 11

NIDA SOPHASARUN
Rainy Season | 12
The Mosquito | 13

LEAH TIEGER
The First Thing He Gives Me | 15
After Eden | 17

EMRY TRANTHAM
Wishing on Tunnels | 19

LINDSEY WEBB
from Garden | 20

FICTION

SUZANNE REEDER
Drop Zone | 26

CHARLES SCOTT
Dollie | 38

EDEN SHULMAN
The Donner Party Theme Park & Guided Tour Experience | 48

GREY WOLFE LAJOIE
Biography of my Father in Spring | 66

CIELO LUTINO
Seeing Things | 74

KAREEM TAYYAR
An Old Man in the City of Angels (The Life and Afterlife of Weldon Kees | 84

THE FRIEND

CORINNE DEKKERS
Introduction by Dan Beachy-Quick | 90
Broadcasting | 92
Remember: Help is on the Way | 93
Desert Rites | 94
Mohl Ip | 96
Bewilderness | 98
Ways of Uncovering | 101
Passage (Two More Meaning the River) | 102
Passage (To Manifest and to River: Notes from The Peacock Room, Prescott, AZ | 103
Passage (For Carrying) | 104
Passage (Milagro Blue) | 105
The Call Within the Call | 106
Antigone Canadensis | 107
Passerine | 108

REVIEWS

JOSH HEAPS
Dead Men’s Trousers by Irvine Welsh | 110

JESSICA Q. STARK
Water / Tongue by mai c. doan | 114