Fall 2021: Vol. 49, Issue 4

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

John Picard
The Exalted Present

Dana Shavin
We’re Very Sorry For Your Loss

CREATIVE NONFICTION

William Kelley Woolfitt
A is for Ark Population
J is for Jewelweed
O is for Origin

POETRY

Ron Houchin
First Belief
Getting Ready for Church
Dream of Elephants
Sleeping with a Light On

Dan Leach
approximation #62

Maura Way
Fringes

Sarah Grace Goolden
Shredding My Brother
Savannah, Confused by Two Lesbians Wearing Masks

Lauren Smothers
Pure

Megan Gower
To Mary Oliver
Knee Deep
Grackle

John Saad
Where I Was
To Ray

Kelly Zanotti
Galway Triptych
Water Horse

Zachary Bartles
After St. Kevin and the Blackbird

Kurt Olsson
Wildflowers
Poem

Jeff Hardin
A Quiet Voice

Kathleen Hellen
when it rolls in its bed

B. Elizabeth Beck
Even years later

INTERVIEW

Jayne Moore Waldrop by Jason Kyle Howard

BOOK REVIEWS

Pop: An Illustrated Novel (Robert Gipe) by Donna M. Crow

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Keeping Time by Lucian Alexe