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Issue #25 – Autumn 2020
Editorial – Autumn 2020
Twilight Instructions for Summer Spirits
A Lesson About the Speaker
Farmer’s Market, Post-Eviction
Spindle
Carousel
A Gravitationally Collapsed Object
Megrim
Chrysalid Truths
Divergent and Rotten to the Core
Skin Color as Inconvenience
Learning the Way
Unincorporated
I Dreamed of a Woman
The Breaking Heart Tries Not to Ask Questions
Seven Steps to Reach Your Father Across the Great Divide
For Now
Weighted Graph
Song to Symmetry
Expedition to the Surface of GJ 3470b
At the End
Issue #26 – Winter 2020-21
Editorial – Winter 2020-21
More Noise Than the Wind and the Rain
A Newborn Thing
Cartography
The Child-Eating Forest Speaks Its Mind
The ten categories of being believed by Aristotle
Make Believe
Andromeda’s Lament
Creon’s Apology
For Iris
A Frozen Heart
Issue #27 – Spring 2021
Editorial – Spring 2021
Gravity is the combined weight of our hearts
Naked I Shall Return To It
Phase Shift
Ghost Battalion
Genre Change
(Un)Tame
Summer Court Love Story
Bahn
cusp
Biography
Ritual
Issue #28 – Summer 2021
Editorial – Summer 2021
Careless Harms, Thoughtless Constructions
Young Adult Catalogue
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Spork
For Ophelia, Twenty-Five Years Later
on the labels of pill bottles – my medicine cabinet after I’m finally gone
The City I Love Is No Longer The City I Left
our stitching and unstitching
Compass Needles
Beckoning
thirteen scenes from last year
Blur
Previous Issues
Year One
Issue #1 – Autumn 2014
Editorial (Autumn 2014)
A Summoning of Monsters
Love Letters for the Itinerant
The Furtive Pantheon
The devil riding your back
A Broken Heart
Arson Poetica
For Sale
Sacred
Made Out of the Terror
Collyer
Self-Portrait as Bilbo Baggins
Topological Grief
Ghosting
Love in Graduate School
Scion
The Knowing
moss covered
Sea Widow
The Word for Love
Orpheus Rides West/Letter to Eurydice from Deep inside the Teenage Wasteland
Make the Night Go Faster
Issue #2 – Winter 2014/15
Editorial (Winter 2014/15)
Entreaty
The Haunting
The Martyr of Baikonur
Entwined ‘Neath Stars and Empty Suns
Pentimento
Ada
The Sirens’ Song to the U.N. Security Council: Monday, July 10, 2017
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Hypnos and Thanatos: The Embrace
Auspicious
The Lark, The Peat, The Star, and Our Time
Issue #3 – Spring 2015
Editorial (Spring 2015)
Musicide
Blood and Honey
The Animals, Who Are In Your Mouth
Drowned City
Bones
Among the Dead
The Occupation of Millers Creek
On the Tree
Myth of the Mother Snake
Merlusine
Issue #4 – Summer 2015
Editorial (Summer 2015)
The Sea Roads
Singing Her Body Oceanic
Ink
Bone-House
The Hero’s Journey
Blue
A Visit With Morgan le Fay
Until Waking
Gunmetal
rain
Year Two
Issue #5 – Autumn 2015
Editorial (Autumn 2015)
Baba Yaga Has Tea With Kostchai the Deathless
An Unexpected Guest
Between the Lines
Litany; Dust
The Garden Wild
The Night Before an Interstellar Journey
Origami Crane / Light-Defying Spaceship
The Start of the Past
Splinter Song
Tasseography of English Breakfast Tea at 30,000 Feet
Issue #6 – Winter 2015/2016
Editorial (Winter 2015/2016)
Dionysus of the Downtown
White: Outside of Color
How to be something not real
Changeling Manifesto
Angiogenesis
My Own Lightning
swan
What to Do With a Photosynthetic Lover
Desert Mermaid
Changeling
The Selkie Before Summer
If You Find Me Out
Issue #7 – Spring 2016
Editorial (Spring 2016)
The Lies You Learned
Elegy for the Hulk
For ours is the glory
Ecdysis
bedtime story, age 96
Rat-Infested Ship Off the Coast of Britain
The Art of the Blood Sacrifice
Sketches
Faith
(House)
The Wheredrobe
inventory: the ghosts in the bedroom
Lepidopteramancer
Issue #8: Summer 2016
Editorial (Summer 2016)
Translations of a Runestone Found in Minnesota
A priest, church windows, & divination
Saint of the Gracious Smile, your lips are cruel
Exposing Tricks
8 Ways Any Girl Can Become More Attractive, According to Science
Flesh
Jellyfish/Out of Water
Wattle Skinned
Yoga Chip
WERE-
Million-Year Elegies – Hallucigenia
Just So Story (The Four Faces of Luck)
Hexagram 64: Taste the Salt
Year Three
Issue #9: Autumn 2016
Editorial (Autumn 2016)
The Ritual
An Angel Considers His Fallen Brother
Conditional Statements
Exvocation
For Lonnie
The Pacific is Wine Pink
The Wait
How I Lost the Sky
To the Waters
Giant-Killer, 1915
Fusion Dream
After the Forest Fire
Mother Tornado
Issue #10 – Winter 2016/2017
Editorial (Winter 2016/2017)
the mountain, in g major
Skin
The Were
Leda Feels Empathy for Her Swan
Donkeyskin
Wanted:
Waking
The Widow and the Wave
Behold and Beholden
In Quietude
Thanatopoiesis
Seer
The Star-Drinkers
Last Call at the Hypothetical Tavern
Issue #11 – Spring 2017
Editorial: Spring 2017
The Well
Wild Cartography
October Wildflower
The Witch’s House
Woodwork
House of two trees
Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song
Nautilus Cup
A Lover, Asleep
Birch Bark Quilt
Issue #12 – Summer 2017
Editorial (Summer 2017)
Of Iliaster
Till death do us not part
Night Swim
Witch-Love
The Echo of Water
And They Roared in Answer
Circe’s Guests
Versus
Unicorns
Superman Smokes
Absence
The Simple Poem
Year Four
Issue #13 – Autumn 2017
Editorial (Autumn 2017)
Small Town Witches
New Holloway
Corvideo
A History of Biophysics
The Magic 8-Ball Is Having None Of It
Persephone Kidnaps Him
Solar Eclipse
Gang of Brides
Lokabrenna
Cobalt
Elektra to Antigone
Secrets
How I Lost My Chastity
Reclining Janus, Nude
The Alchemy of Arsenic
Asomatognosia
Ode to Things I Left Behind
Be My Leviathan
Cthulhu Listens to the Beach Boys
Force Nine
Issue #14 – Winter 2017-2018
Editorial: Nuclear Winter 2017-18
Sestina for Marzanna
Devotion
Armament
Enthusiasts of Ruin
a battleground courses in jingfei
White Noise
Watching the Centaur Races with Yeh-Yeh
One-Way Ticket
Martrees on Terra
In Uniprose Between Two Books
Endings
Archaeological Record
Immersed
Fountain
Issue #15 – Spring 2018
Editorial – Spring 2018
Green Thumbs
Across the Anvil and Burning
Dissimulation With Birds
Current
Orpheus
Lost Girls
The Witch’s House
Our Badlands
All Dead Things Shall Come To Me
The Parasite
chill im a nice person I just hate everybody
Issue #16 – Summer 2018
Editorial – Summer 2018
parasitic
How to trick bees into singing
The Black Paintings
Seraphima
Black Swan
It’s Lohengrin, but
Beauty Routine
Fire in the Chart
Vulpine Rede
Rabbit Pulls a Magician Out of Her Hat
Semi-Tropical
Year Five
Issue #17 – Autumn 2018
Editorial – Autumn 2018
The Dryad’s Lament for Autumn
Athenadora
Lilac
Dead-Eye Girl
The Story that the Small Thing Tells
Advice to a Villain
Gone
Unpacking
Smoking with the Dead
The Sea-Wolf of Brittany
Anagolay, Goddess of Lost Things
Beach Community
Issue #18 – Winter 2018-19
Editorial – Winter 2018-19
Things That Will Keep You Through Winter
In the end times we court the silence
The Dissolution of Icarus
Proserpina
Snow: White; White: Snow
Syncope
Tomorrow’s Moments
Sometimes Sirens
Elegies of the Winter-Born Whales
Take Good Care of the Car Please
Wildfire
Issue #19 – Spring 2019
Stone
Trees and What They Whisper
Lady Macbeth’s Green Gown
to put aside all fear
An Automatic Cajachina
After the Faeries
Train Graffiti
I’m Dousing Myself in Kerosene
Fox Thoughts
The Reliquary
The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry
The Goddess of Laying Words Down One By One
Issue #20 – Summer 2019
Editorial – Summer 2019
In The Waning
This Permanent Now
Holloways, Green Lanes, and the Old Straight Track
The Goddess of Time
Bartleby in Lyon
Treason
Silver Tongue
Pearling
Red Carpet
Baby, I’ve Been Having Bad Dreams
Mystic Cascades
Loaf Mass
AXIAL TILT
David Wojnarowicz vs. Entropy
Fallen But Not Down
Year Six
Issue #21 – Autumn 2019
Editorial – Autumn 2019
Odyssey
Brine and Vanishings
Eurydice Confesses
Phaedra in Hades
The Parting of Giants
Echo
Alternate Galatea
What happened to the 12th dancing princess (circa 1946)
A Maze of Marble and Mind
Minotaur
Cassandra at Last Call
Yeah This Will Work
Child of the Mountain
Icarus’ Father
For Juliet
Self-Care for Villains
In/Retrograde
The Tensile Strength of a Guide Cable
Slow Walk
. ….. ..story .. time
Issue #22 – Winter 2019-20
Editorial – Winter 2019-20
If you see me, weep
Refraction
Consider Me Feral
Lightbulbs
Matryoshka Doll
Place Settings
Better Than Wellingtons
You and Your Tulpa
Mojo Lost
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
My Relationship with Water
Two Kinds of People
recursion
Sonnet for the Vast Beyond
Issue #23 – Spring 2020
Editorial – Spring 2020
Chaos Theory
Inscription on a Ruined Plinth
Honeycombed
Fig Wasp
A Dish Best Served
gnats in my head
The Awakening: A Witch in Four Acts
Spell Thief
Strangleknot
Daughters Saving Mothers
Homecoming
self-portrait as seoul
A Thousand Voices
Black Water, Black Bones
A Song from Bedlam (with apologies to Christopher Smart)
Issue #24 – Summer 2020
Editorial – Summer 2020
The Old God Dies
on smashing my windows
Pending
Co-habitation
The Chanterelle and the Birch
The Flying City
Friends on the Other Side
Acacia
Grief is a Labyrinth
while our mirrors make their excuses
Going Home
Vast Dark Wild
Happy Endings
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