Winter 2021 | 70.2

POETRY

HENRIETTA GOODMAN
Postcolonial Melancholia | 8
Memento Mori, but Hair of the Living, Too | 10

CHARITY KETZ
[pastoral for the aughts] | 12
[mining] | 15

RICHARD LYONS
Erosion | 19
Deserted Shack in Bright Sunlight | 20
Sunlight on Otters | 21

PATRICK MILIAN
From the Clearing | 22
Mistresswork | 25
The Asymmetries | 28
The Prodigies | 30

JON THOMPSON
A Question of How Far Back You Want to Go | 31
Obligation | 32
On the Art of the Gods | 34

FICTION

KATE BLACK
Doreen’s Teeth | 36

STEVE McCARTY
Appalachia and Other Inventions of the Postmodern Imagination | 44

MOLLIE SWAYNE
Game Theory for Beginners | 56

NON-FICTION

JENNIFER ANDERSON
Undulation | 72

OLGA-MARIA CRUZ
Fasting: A Diptych | 82

JARED SHAFFER
Friendly Reminder | 88

THE FRIEND

G.C. WALDREP
On Matthew Moore | 92

MATTHEW MOORE
Anabasis | 94
The Etymology of Union | 96
Not My Horses | 98
The Vegetable Lamb’s Entrance into Charleston
in 1858 | 99
Yankee Among the Swallows | 101
In Heresy Relapse | 103
Envoi | 104

REVIEWS

TEGAN DALY
Fossils in the Making by Kristen George Bagdanov | 106

E. Jones
An Orphanage of Dreams by Sam Savage | 111

ROSE LAMBERT-SLUDER
Further News of Defeat by Michael X. Wang | 116