TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 | Lina AlSharif
Dear Western Journalists
Things We Lose to Borders
I - we were lured from our own pools
13 | Diana Barnes-Brown
Animal Cruelty
Explaining Heart Failure to a Paramedic
Instructions for Perfect Teeth
20 | Carl Boon
Edges of War, 2017
Suleymaniye
The Diyala River
After Nahit Ulvi Akgun
25 | Omoefe Grant-Oyeye
The Two Faces of an Old Ghost
26 | Hamed Hasany Asiabdare
Mother
28 | Bill Trippe
Need to Know
33 | Joe Balaz
Hiding Dere in the Ocean Gr ass
Like Wun Ghostly White on Rice
Cecilia Goes to Mar yknoll
40 | Edythe Haendel Schwartz
Child
41 | Abby Chew
Dance Story
Rhona’s Sea Story
II - fingertips on this fire
45 | Vishwas R. Gaitonde
Degree Coffee
56 | Vasyl Lozynsky (Василь Лозинський ), translated from the Ukrainian by Ostap Kin & Ali Kinsella
Untitled (A Loud Title)
[Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s secretary]
[you were dancing at a night club]
New York
64 | Kayvan Tahmasebian, translated from the Farsi by Rebecca Gould
Artist’s Statement on Janin Poem Cycle
The Fetus of the Dream
The Fetus of the Text
The Fetus of the Marginalia
Shah’s Mosque
76 | Fabiyas M V
Tughlug
77 | Ustav Kaushik
Oops! Agh! And Oh!
The World Is So Silent
79 | Vasyl Makhno, translated from the Ukrainian by Olga Gerasymiv
The House on Seven Winds
On The Road
Paris
91 | Kathleen Gunton
Lirios De Perdon
Time’s Question
Like Magic
The Geography of Death
III - [sky] beside Blue
97 | Alleliah Nuguid
Manananggal
Why the Filipino’s Nose Is Flat
Self Study
100 | Matthew Woodman
The Phantom
Trembling Woman
The Blue Chair
Thumbing the Scale
Either You Leave Or You Get Lost
105 | Jason Mastaler
Still Life With the Cats of Jerusalem
The Last One
107 | Barry Kitterman
Locust Street
117 | Jose D. Trejo-Maya
Sun Daggers
Akashic Archives
Seven Mirror
La Hierba Retorcida
IV - the flavoring of ocean water
129 | Ana-Christina Acosta Gaspar de Alba
Secretos
133 | Sheryl Nelms
Crescent Moon in Texas
South Dakota Badlands
“Have You Got a Dollar Lady?”
138 | Mariela Griffor
Declassified
140 | Teresa De La Cruz
Me Coconut, You Machete
Star Dust
Love Fragments
149 | Lyn Lifshin
The Mad Girl Knows that the Days Are Getting Longer
The Mad Girl Dreams of Houses Left Behind
After Too Many Nights Drugged
“In the Violet Hour” on a Page, Maybe in a Poetry Book Someone Was Reading on the Metro
The Week Report Says the Week Ahead Will Bring Snow
On the First Morning Snow Is Predicted
Dutch Rescuer of the Jews in the Holocaust. One Killed a Nazi to Save a Family
151 | E. Kristin Anderson
The Queen Presents
The Riot Interrupted
153 | David Rodriguez
Scurf / Suit
155 | Pelenakeke Brown
Leaking
156 | Andrew Rahal
Barrel / Sanctuary
Entering Sappho
Leaving Truth
Leaving the Circle
161 | David Romanda
Home
162 | Adria Bernardi
Sidewalk & Other Neural Networks of Well-Being
V - yet to end
187 | Shane Seely
Black Ice
Black Tuesday
190 | Nancy F. Talbott
Fissures
194 | K.L. Fujiwara
Sqawking Despot
195 | Duke Trott
Invasive Species
198 | Lisa Yanover
Divining the Past
203 | D.A. Lockhart
What Makes Us the Creatures We Must Be
Dewey Bends Daylight Around Irvington High School
Dropping Lines Along the Towpath Canal
206 | Alaina Symanovich
Faulty Hearts
215 | Emileigh Barnes
Seatown, a Definitional
Hymn
219 | Ken Tokuno
Guidance Toward Death
223 | Lina AlSharif
Fingerprints
Buds and Roses