ISSUE 31 - JUNE 2025 - CONTENTS

POETRY

ART

JOAN LARKIN Reading ‘Vagina’ Sonnet to an Audience after Fifty Years LEO ROSE RODRIGUEZ Prayer to the Rib-Daughters EMMA JOHNSON-RIVARD Tinder DAISY KULINA A letter to my future child ASHLEY TAYLOR In Dreams In Dreams To Move Oblique HOLLY ARCHIBALD When Did I Become Political? ANNIE DADE Poem for a Retired Dog Walker ADELINE GERRARD reverence ELIZABETH S. GUNN Memoir NICOLE FARMER poem i found in my pocket which i don’t remember writing SARAH CHIN Our Lady of the Highways BELLA MELARDI I am Guilty ANASTACIA DE LA LUNA The Fifth Chamber JEN OCONNOR ANThropomorphism JANE DELASHMUTT Orlando EMILY HAY World Cup Weekend

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