Spring 2020 | 69.3

POETRY

DESTINY HEMPHILL
dispatches from the now/here | 8
amy, thank you for many times | 12
blood memory: a riddle | 16
are you sure you wanna be well, sweetheart? | 18
a prophet-mother channels a message
                           on the afterlife | 19
ghazal for the MOTHERWORLD | 21
fragments salvaged from the oracles
                           of mama-n-em | 22

JOSEPH DONAHUE
fromTerra Lucida | 28

NATHANIEL MACKEY
Stainless Lotus of Light | 58
Song of the Andoumboulou: 243 | 66
Itamar, Rejuvenant Spook | 74
Song of the Andoumboulou: 245 | 80

JESSICA Q. STARK
Phylogenetics | 88
Little Red Riding Hood | 89
Ballad of the Red Wisteria | 90
The Tale of the Tiger-Women | 93
Madame Nhu’s Áo Dài, 1946 | 96
Kleptomania I | 99
Kleptomania II | 100
Kleptomania III | 102
Poem in Which I Narrowly Escape My Birth | 103
Little Red Riding Hood | 105
Con Cào Cào | 106
Buffalo Girl | 108
The Old Man in the Tree | 110
The True History of Little Golden-Hood | 115

FICTION

MESHA MAREN
Flamingo | 116
Among | 123
Tip | 125
Withdraw | 126

CALEB JOHNSON
Mountains Reveal Themselves Slowly | 128

REVIEWS

DEBORAH BACHARACH
The Tradition by Jericho Brown | 142

KEVIN GALLIN
Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga | 146