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NOTES
Editor’s
6
Readers’
7
Prize Pages 12 Contributors’ 84 Last 88
FICTION
Latchkey, 58 Mary Kate Baker Of the Eating Variety, 72 Allison Field Bell
NONFICTION
Mysteries and Symbols of My Past, 14 Mildred K. Barya Derecho, 32 Alex Pickens
VISUAL ART
The art of Andrew Hayes 41 The art of Stacey Lee Webber 42 The art of Jill Baker Gower 44 The art of Sarah Perkins 46 The art of Noam Elyashiv 48 The art of Myra Mimlitsch-Gray 50 The art of Ben Dory 52 The art of John Rais 54 The art of Sophie Glenn 55 The art of Nils Hint 56
POETRY
26 My Mother’s Feet, Mary Jo Firth Gillett 27 As the Nurse Fills Out the Intake Form, the Ocean Speaks Your Name, Jamaica Baldwin 28 Funeral Anagrams, Aliki Barnstone 29 Weaving, Judith Sornberger 30 Shattered, Saddiq Dzukogi 31 I too take shelter in the body, John Sibley Williams 39 April 23, 2020 and Today is Shakespeare’s Birthday, Sunni Brown Wilkinson 57 In the Hopes I can Spell out my Name, E. Kristin Anderson 68 The Weight of Dreams, Sharamang Silas 69 The Weight of Trains, Sharamang Silas 71 Karolyne Makes Kliesel, Melissa Spohr Weiss 81 Communion, Michael Garrigan 82 Fred Wants to Know if I Believe in God, Margot Wizansky 83 When it Comes, Sunni Brown Wilkinson
