Issue 29 | Fall 2023
A Flight
Adam Day
After Joe Wenderoth
They are perfecting
the pillow with which
you are being suffocated;
now it sings to you
and shows you pictures:
a sameness to ride
like a horse made
of fire and rising wind.
Look at them
not coming true
the way the month
is always longer
than the paycheck.
Because Jesus Christ’s
spirit didn’t fly; he was lost.
About the Author
Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press), Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and a PEN Award. His work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, The Progressive, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.
Prose
Excerpt from novel-in-progress Plastic Soul: On the Destructive Nature of Lava James Nulick
About the About Mary Burger
Ellipse, DC Denis Tricoche
Excerpt from My Women Yuliia Iliukha translated by Hanna Leliv
In the East John Gu
Fire Trances Iliana Vargas, translated by Lena Greenberg and Michelle Mirabella
Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope Kelly Krumrie
Autumn Juan José Saer, translated by Will Noah
Pen Afsana Begum, translated by Rifat Munim
The Game Warden Michael Loyd Gray
Current and Former Associates William M. McIntosh
Take Care Laura Zapico
Poetry
I am writing the dream Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Domnica Radulescu
and finally, life emerging
and the night begins
Letter to the Soil Skye Gilkerson
A Flight Adam Day
The World Ariana Den Bleyker
What We Held in Common Justin Vicari
The Shame of Loving Another Poet
How to Keep Going Rebecca Macijeski
How to Lose Your Fear of Death
How to Paint the Sky
Eternal Life Cletus Crow
Cover Art
Deep Dive Ayshia Müezzin