Winter 2022 | 71.2

POETRY

EMMA AYLOR
Acreage | 8
Incomplete List of Items in the Yard | 9

JAKE BAILEY
The Unfolding of Treatment ReZistance | 11
The Molecular Structure of Ziprasidone | 12
Schizo and the Vibration of Atoms | 13
I Eat Bear Like This | 14

MATTHEW BRAILAS
Curse | 16
Love Poem with a Prayer | 18
Camping at Pharoah Mountain | 20
Bottled Water | 21
Poem to My Mother | 22

KELLEY WHITE
Bucket, Wood, braided raw-hide handle | 24
Frame of Shaker Painted Labels | 25
Applesauce maker, pine, tin cover | 26

FICTION

EMILY FLAMM
Are We in a Fight | 28

J.C. PETERS
Deathbed | 36

VANNI THACH
Blue | 44

NON-FICTION

LISA LEVY
“You Were Always Such a Happy Child”: Seven Unhelpful Things to Say to a College Student Contemplating Suicide | 55

HAILEY HIGDON
Visit Eastbourne—Because It’s You | 67

CAROLINE WAMPOLE
In Lieu of Flowers | 72

MATTHEW WIMBERLEY
Writing All the Great Territories | 75

THE FRIEND

KATIE PETERSON
On Sarah Stickney | 86

SARAH STICKNEY
Earliest Conversation | 87
Freudian Aliens | 88
Rye Flip | 89
The Wishing Well | 90
Wood Burning | 91
The Definition of a Cocktail | 92
The Present | 93
Persephone | 94
Avery County | 95

REVIEWS

DYLAN THOMPSON
Future Feeling by Joss Lake | 96

KATHRYN T. BURTS
The Renunciations by Donika Kelly | 100

HANNAH SKJELLUM
Alien Stories by E.C. Osondu | 104