June 2023

Volume 4, Issue 2

Poetry

• Hilesh Patel That letter about touching horses (briefly) and A stone’s throw — gun violence, death

• J A Hansen you’ve been so quiet — death

• Sara Rosenberg MERCY — cancer, animal illness

• Kit Ingram RUNAWAY — PTSD

• Craig Finlay Before Anyone Sees and People are Dying to Get In — death, drowning

• Henry Israeli THE KINGDOM INSIDE ME — genocide, antisemitism

• Megan Cartwright Harvest — infertility

• Sarah Jefferis Eastern Seaboard — sex abuse, adolescent prostitution, eating disorder, homelessness

• Sharon Lee Snow The Ways We Lose Our Children — alcoholism, alcohol abuse, child abuse, child abduction, domestic violence, drug abuse, car crash, death, cults, mental illness

• Julieanne Larick Warm Creature and Elegy to Lying — suicide, death, animal death

• Leanne Shirtliffe How to Bartend When You’re Six — alcohol abuse

• Amanda Boyanowski-Morin Supplication — guns, panic and anxiety attack, seizure

• Jessica Mehta If food is love, what does it mean — eating disorder

• Jennifer Garfield what a mother — climate change

• Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues LATCHKEY — drug abuse, addiction

• Rebecca Evans At the end of my shrinking — eating disorder, child sex abuse

• Daniel Brennan The Abstract Portrait of a Boy on Fire Island

• Debbra Palmer To the Pheasant & Other Wounded Girls — animal abuse, animal death, child sex abuse

• tommy wyatt Transmasculinity — body-shaming, slut-shaming, transphobia, self-harm, suicidal ideation