Table of Contents

Poetry

Ace Boggess

          Similar Are the Sacred and Profane

Geoff Howes

          Black Swamp Suite

Peycho Kanev

          Stillness

John McKernan (1942-2025)

         A Hand Mirror in the Garden

         No Floods No Booze No Grits No Sex No Death

         Erasing the Blackboard

         My Last Breath

         When You Enter Heaven

Llewellyn McKernan

         Together My Love and I

         White

         Magic Pencil

Matt Morris

         Getting There

         Song of My Sylph

Joey Nicoletti

         Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper

Kirby Olson

         The Next Mayor of Manhattan

         Highline Park in NYC

 John Popielaski

          Elegy for American Toad

          How Fragile Is the Peace

Paul Smith

           Moat

Patricia Walsh

           Instruction Manual

           Wasting Pain

Fiction

Clyde Liffey

           Cross

Richard Stimac

           Little Red-haired Girl–a flash fiction retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story

                  Axe-Man

                  Little Red-haired Girl

                  Other People’s Eyes

Andrea Tillmanns

           The biological library

           Manuel

           Variant 41

Nonfiction

K. McGinnis Brown

           The Outlaw He Wanted to Be

Visual Art

Brian Michael Barbeito

          Solitary Sojourns Scenic