Fragments of Southwestern Youth Stink beetles balancebeakson splintered porch.Arizona daze,San Francisco Peakssanctify.Dragonflies flash blueas jelly shoes.Chicken-egg scoopcoop. Sunflowers archrock-hunked roadsthrough ponderosa pine.Jewelry-makerneighbor, turquoise nuggetsmachine drills, echoes. Pine bough huts,Sinagua potsherds,black-on-white patternsfragment underfoot;daydreams dead awakenearthen palms:ontological monsoon. No cell phone, no gps.Sun out time: time-inmoon orb oozes behindMars Hill: no ears ringing, no callsfrom home or to home,not in far-goneforest of…
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Issue 105, published January 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by L. Ward Abel, Evan Anders, Nancy Connors, Diana Dinverno, Melissa Goodnight, Carol Hamilton, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Tess Kelly, Robert Knox , Bernard Knudsen, Kathy Kremins, Clare Marsh, Mary McGinnis, Dawn Miller, Michelle Morouse, Larena Nellies-Ortiz, Lorrie Ness, Robert Nisbet, John Perrault, Patrick T. Reardon, Lisa Rua-Ware, Michael Salcman, Rich Spang, Joshua St. Claire, Eugene Stevenson, Pamela Wax, Ann Weil, and Evan Morgan Williams.
