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 99, published July 2021, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Desi Allevato, Melissa Andres, Bordnick, Lawrence Bridges, Trent Busch, Alexandra T. O. Cooley, Natalie Coufal, Chella Courington, Lana Eileen, Caroline Fernelius, Ann Fischer, Nathan Gentry, E Laura Golberg, Alan Hill, Michael Hower, Kent Jacobson, James F. Latin, K. L. Johnston, Melissa Knox, Alex Lee, M. Ocampo McIvor, Robert Nisbet, Marijean Oldham, Marlene Olin, Anika Pavel, Shawn Pfunder, Sherry Mossafer Rind, Jim Ross, Caroline N. Simpson, Eric Stiefel, Lisa J. Sullivan, Steven Turrill, William Welch, Connie Wieneke, Linda Wimberly, Jean Wolff.
