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Issue 4 | Spring 2026

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Happy Deathday!

Boca Chica Launch Fever

Nocturne With Lead Paint

Turtle Soup

Canopy

The Green Elephant

Clouded

Persephone Visits the Acropolis Museum

Clayman's Terms

When my rings don’t fit I think of my grandmother’s hands

Safe as Houses

It's All in a Woman's Day

ouroboros spell, in red

Painted by an Elephant

Layover

A False Love

Pastoral

Third Wheel

Stray (The Moon)

Dorchester

Asleep in the Reeds

my cousin Ava

Hell Enough

What Mess

The Birds Do Not Sow, the Lillies Do Not Spin

The white/blue fin of the whale

Burst Pipes

fluidics

From the curb

Ghost City

Issue 3 | Fall 2025

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A Tornado Touches Down in My Hometown

Full Sturgeon Moon

Sweet Rot

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The Lesbians On Tumblr Are Telling Me to Eat a Sandwich

Bump and Run

Aisle of Mirrors

AJAR

Rusty Dream

Buttons

the animals walked out of the burning meadow

The Lepidopterist

Poem for the Willimantic Alligator

Teeth in Rows

Palabras Peligrosas

Crisis

Filching

Commas

Restraint

Descendants

Suffering Through

A Short Inventory of Small Ruins

Springing Into Rest

Shades of Blue

Light Language

Where It Began

Issue 2 | Spring 2025

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Dry Spell

Crying About Old Women at the Macy’s Jewelry Counter (Again)

Taste of Burning Sugar

Virgin Mojito

Dough-Over

Gluten Breath

Off Menu

The First Time I Gave Birth

Married White Male

Pimping for Flowers

Self Portrait as Silkworm

Postmodern Transportation

My Lips Are Up Here

a doctor conducts an interrogation with my spinal column

What the Desert Gave Me

Signing the Guest Book

Ode to the Collapsed Barn Off the Interstate

High Bridge Park

If You Weren’t You

Lord of the Fishes

Taipei, July 2022–Georgia, 2024

Afternoon in the Archives

For a Ghost

A Perfect, Pale Darkness

Technicolor

Brain

Heart

This is a Poem, Not Trash

Bok-bok Brother

Dinner Party: She Comes to the Door

Issue 1 | Fall 2024

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Dinner Party In Green

Inheritance

If Jesus and Judas walked into a bar after the last supper

Top Chef S13 E8: On Microgreens

Market Day

Last Gasp

The Oldest Man in the Skateboard Park

Matchbook Dominoes

On Identity

Dinner with Enya

Dermatillomania

Dead Deer, Nebraska

Going home the weekend the boy I used to love died

Can’t Go Home

The Imaginers

Said the Lily Leaf to the Slug

One of These Things First

Of Course You Can’t Really Change Anyone

A Color of Wheat to the Forest Wall

if you had truly tasted the rainbow, you would know it tastes like the drive to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the fall

Coupon Royals

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