Issue No. 21

Table of Contents

Poetry

• I am deciding which language to spend the night in by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie
• Dear Archon [birthplace] by Kimberly Alidio
• And That Fast, You’re Thinking About Their Bodies by Threa Almontaser
• My Good Clothes / Middle School / 1998 by David Campos
• Terrible Bodies by Ina Cariño
• After the Crest  •  In the Hometown I’ve Tried to Love by Jeremy Michael Clark
• Sketch With Warming Sea, Cortés, and Danger by Justin Davis
• Bait: A Queer Myth  •  海, or Memory as a Water Language by Gavin Yuan Gao
• Beside the Point by Mia Kang
• Dolores by Christine Larusso
• Sea Glass  •  My Lost Suns by Cameron Alexander Lawrence
• The Lights Are off but Somebody’s Home  •  Yes and No by Jeremiah Moriarty
• Wisconsin Holds a Place in My Heart & I Just Want It to Let Go  •  An Argument About Being Needy While Underneath Binary Stars (duplex) by Joshua Nguyen
• Nasturtiums by Cecily Parks
• Associating the Dissociating  •  Mothering a Smothering by Ayesha Raees
• Who Is Your Favourite Dead Person?  •  Honey by Mary Ruefle
• Painting a February Sky by Yusuf Saadi
• to talk with you by Xiao Yue Shan
• My brother asks to teach him how to pray by Tanaya Winder
• Afterword  •  Elegy After by Alisha Yi

Non-fiction

• kācabō by Asha Thanki

Fiction

• Simple Math by Mary Milstead
• Fever by Sumita Mukherji
• Lack by Nicholas Russell