Issue 9: The “Beneath” Issue
Guest Edited by Silas Denver Melvin
A Note From the Editors
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
Welcome to the Whale Inn
Dorian Winter
Shower Duty
Claire E Scott
Opus
Nico Newman
Oh. I think I’d like to know who I’m becoming.
Todd Dillard
New Grief
Mary Simmons
I Cannot Take Your Call Right Now, I Have Become a Glass Museum
Elijah Woodruff
Melted SpongeBob popsicle in Central Park or the poet encounters a beautiful place and loses something of value.
Linea Jantz
Refrigerator Works $50
Liam Crooks
The Death of a Friend
Mike Altstaetter
On the side of the road, the deer looks at his brother and says
C.W. Bryan
From the Window at 6:12 am
Julian River
song of home
Marnie Monogue
liquid smooth
Chris Bullard
At Mayor Frank Rizzo’s Grave
Arthur Lyna
Remodeling
Adrian Matias Bell
perfume
Donald Patten
Two Pieces from The Five Senses of Perception
Deron Eckert
Same
Haley King
Spare Souls
Nailea Salazar
No Matter What You Do
Laura Tafe
whispers on steam
imagination has no roofs
Josh Gaydos
Missionary
Josephine Gawtry
Belly Up
B. L. Bruce
ON CRYSTAL PEAK
THE MORNING YOU LEFT
THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH I CAN DO
Kelly DuMar
Tender Ice II
Cold Brook Mountain Woman
Christopher McCormick
Boot Prints on the River Bank
Duplex with Birds Shattering Perfectly