*POEMS* ZACH LINGE Fingers on a Gay Man For Baron B. JESUS GOVEA Bruh DAISY FRIED One Day I Suddenly Notice ...1 TERESE SVOBODA Noah Hoarse JAMES MCCORKLE Franklin's Bees ZEINA HASHEM BECK Poem Beginning & Ending with My Birth ALISON C. ROLLINS At Least a Dozen Bluets Parable of the Goldfinch MAGGIE SMITH How Dark the Beginning Threshold JESSICA GREENBAUM Charlene, MIA YOU Gangnam Beauty JOHN LEE CLARK The Manual MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Singing CAOILINN HUGHES Who Gets the Silverware? BETH BACHMANN Fragments of Bone and Ice International Rose Test Garden MARY B. MOORE California Ode VIRGINIA KEANE I Moved to the Far Side of the Bar Fish and Friend LANI O'HANLON This Other Thing GABRIELLE BATES The Mentor FRANCINE J. HARRIS Curtains PARTRIDGE BOSWELL Upon Hearing Amy Winehouse at St. James’ Church in Dingle NOME EMEKA PATRICK Sylvia Plath as an Old Story Title for Learning to Fight Depression Where the Semiotics Simply Suggest That a Garden Illustrates Peace as a Foreshadow Rather Than as a Vivid Depiction of an Ancestral Society of Sad Mothers & Helpless Fathers ANGELA JACKSON More Than Meat and Raiment TALIN TAHAJIAN Bad classics JACK UNDERWOOD Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Situation An Envelope Alpha Step RODNEY JONES Trying to Believe / We Are Endangered DUJIE TAHAT salat to be read from right to left LIZ BERRY The Burning DAVID FELIX Gastropoda Biosfera *COMMENT* JEFFREY YANG Mary Oppen, Meaning a Life