CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Davis Enloe
Earth, Sky, Trees

Kathryn Milan
Smart House

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Melissa Ballard
Balance

Jonathan Burgess
Fresh Tracks

POETRY

Holly Day
The Box

Amy Wright
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Seven-second Meditation

Todd Davis
The Mink
Last Chores

Sandra Kolankiewicz
Becoming Ladies

Marianne Worthington
James Brown Performs “Cold Sweat” on American Bandstand, 1968
Photograph
Beginning

Caleb Gill
In the Weeping Sift

Preston Martin
Nocturne in F Minor, Mineral Ridge

Summar West
Almanac
Coker Creek

Christopher McCurry
Bone Brush

David Black
My Fig Tree

George Perreault
Woodchuck
Labor Day

Jane Sasser
Old Dogs
Chiaroscuro
Every Leaving

INTERVIEW

Charles Dodd White by Emily Masters

CRAFT ESSAY

Jennifer McGaha
Ode to Aimlessness

BOOK REVIEWS

Emily Masters
Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home by Cathryn Hankla

James Owens
Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields by Julia Spicher Kasdorf & Steven Rubin