Fall 2020 | 70.1

POETRY

PAM CROW
Gretel’s Letter to Her Mother | 8

AIDEN HEUNG
He Asks Me Out for Coffee | 10

ELLEN KOMBIYIL
Lament with Tulips and Crows | 11
Lament with Fried Potatoes and Ghosts | 13

OMOTUNDE OREDIPE
Sea of Love | 14

TOM PAINE
Gold Fish | 15

MARIELLE PRINCE
Preparations | 16

ROCHELLE ROBINSON-DUKES
The timetables of time-splicing | 17
Women in Grief: silence/ breweries / death | 18

MARTHA SILANO
2020 | 20
In the Late Anthropocene | 21

MICHAEL SPENCE
If I Could Change One Thing | 22

ANNE STARLING
Self-Portrait with Stone | 23

BARRETT WARNER
My New Plan is to Live Underwater | 25

LISA HITON
Intrusion | 27

FICTION

LORRAINE KARCZ
Dancing Fingers | 28

MICHAEL LARSON
The Piano Room | 46

JOSEPH RAKOWSKI
The Stethoscope | 54

NON-FICTION

ALEX R. JONES
The Maricopa | 66

ERIC PANKEY
from Essays in Idleness: a zuihitsu | 76

JUAN CARLOS REYES
The Art of Leadership, No. 1 | 82

SIMONE ROWEN
Bed 15A | 86

THE FRIEND

PETER O’LEARY
WLS: Openings. An introduction. | 91

WLS
El Monte Homestead / A Sequence | 92
Brainstone (Variation) | 97
Belle Isle Aquarium | 98
The Dogcatchers at Work | 99
The Dogcatchers Vacation at Cape Lookout | 100
The Dogcatchers Before the Flood | 101
The Dogcatchers Have a Plan | 102

REVIEWS

DEBORAH BACHARACH
Space Struck by Paige Lewis | 104

ANVITA BUDHRAJA
Glory and Its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres | 107

ROSE HIMBER HOWSE
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by
Jenn Shapland | 110