Issue 27 | Fall 2022
you have become an archive.
Lorelei Bacht
a cardboard box of orange peels, loose
birds, amber trinkets and silent marks.
you have dropped from the storyline.
unstitched. now passed and celestial.
it is still possible to rummage. still
likely to find a shell, a screw, a coin.
what to do with this stuff. minute
prizes. lost and found. i try on
your jokes, wear your lips for a while.
before leaving you to this nevermind.
About the Author
Lorelei Bacht’s poetic work has appeared / is forthcoming in The Night Heron Barks, Queerlings, Barrelhouse, Sinking City, Stoneboat, streetcake, and elsewhere. They can be found on Twitter @bachtlorelei and on Instagram @lorelei.bacht.writer. They are currently watching the rain instead of working on a chapbook.
Prose
Nonie in Excelsis (Excerpt from About Ed) Robert Glück
Dirk Julia Kohli, translated by Rob Myatt
Panthera onca Jasleena Grewal
The Border Solomon Samson
Tikibik Dominic Blewett
Mistake or Accident Laurie Stone
Excerpt from Mice 1961 Stacey Levine
The Cathedral of Desire Nina Schuyler
The Gorge James Warner
In This Case, He Killed an Innocent Person Carla Bessa, translated by Elton Uliana
A Chinese Temple in California Alvin Lu
Poetry
you have become an archive. Lorelei Bacht
thunderclouds
On the Things I Did at the End of the World Beatriz Rocha, translated by Grant Schutzman
In this movie David C. Hall
Spot Rolla Barraq, translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
Let There Exist For Us… Eva-Maria Sher
That I Would Cameron Morse
Surf
Cover Art
Image 001 Richard Hanus