From the Editor

Francesca Bell

• The Dentist Says It’s from Some Earlier Damage
• Dusk, the Day I Drove My Child to the Partial Hospitalization Program
• Deciduous

Lynne Thompson

• A Birth Mother Wears a Costume Her Daughter Will Never Fit In
• sometimes, the light

Amanda Moore

• Morning Haibun with Tween

Jennifer Habel

• The Death of Madame Monet
• The Habit of Saint Thérèse

Erin Adair-Hodges

• Cleo

Diamond Forde

• Black Girl Goes on Vacation to Orange Beach

Jess Smith

• Internalized

Alison Pelegrin

• Heifer

Leigh Anne Couch

• Life is a State of Siege, a War to the Last Woman

Lana K. W. Austin

• Origin Story: Flying Lessons

Jessica Turney

• Tonic Immobility

Charlotte Pence

• Alligator Swimming Past

Michelle McMillan-Holifield

• Salt, as a Love Letter

Natasha Deonarain

• Pretoria, South Africa, 1945

Abriana Jetté

• Mama Always Warned They Still Hate The Jews

Catherine Esposito Prescott

• Postcard: Service (circa 1991-95)
• 6 AM

Kate Hanson Foster

• Four for a Boy

Lisa Beech Hartz

• Untitled (Still Life), Lee Krasner, 1938

Jennifer Martelli

• Vision Test in the First Grade

Lauren Camp

• Planet

Sandra Meek

• Still, with Glacier Mouse and Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots

Angie Macri

• Iron Is Red When You Put Water on It

Sandy Longhorn

• When the Light Gives Way to the Gloaming

Katrina Smolinsky

• Meditation with Caravaggio’s Francis (on Skull)

Ann Fisher-Wirth

• Postcard of an Anonymous Wooden Carving

Susan Taylor Chehak

• Jane Doe

Rachel Hall

• Jilted

Carrie La Seur

• The Angel of Caracas

Jessie LaFrance Dunbar

• On the Burial of Pecola Breedlove and Finding Voice through Toni Morrison

Virginia Bell

• Chicken

Kerry Madden

• Wild Things