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 100, published October 2021, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by KJ Angelo, Elaine Barnard, Ruth Bavetta, Marcia K. Bilyk, Heather Bourbeau, Heath Brougher, Juliana Chang, Todd Copeland, Danica Depenhart, David Dephy, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Sandy Fry, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Tawnya Gibson, Scott G. Harvey, Mark Henderson, Stanley Horowitz, Penny Jackson, Christy Lorio, Joe Lugara, Andromeda Mendoza, J. Alan Nelson, Marlene Olin, James Penha, Patrick T. Reardon, Nicolas Ridley, O.G. Rose, Jim Ross, Claire Scott, Roberta Senechal de la Roche, April Pride Sharp, Dave Sims, Richard Stimac, Ellen Stone, Lou Storey, SM Stubbs, Shannon K. Winston, and Tanya L. Young.
