POETRY

Fall Issue

Formation

Genre Cover by Peter Scacco

Oil Field

"you're breaking regulation, / but it's fine—just this one time."

Shauri Cherie

Aftermath

"comets / are coming and the shaking earth is spoiling for a fight"

David A. Goodrum

Momma, Too Young

"Did she ever hear / the Mourning Dove's cry / and answer back"

Abbilene Littell

Cardinal

"You are looking / for a reckoning, / but all I have / is this skin"

Katja Jackson