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Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
kneed and knocked out? Easier
to say aloud I want you, open
the windows to the wind at night.
Emily Lake Hansen (she/her) is the author of Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books 2020) and the chapbook The Way the Body Had to Travel (dancing girl press 2014). Her poetry has appeared in Atticus Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rust + Moth, the Shore, and Up the Staircase Quarterly among others. She is a PhD student at Georgia State University and serves as the poetry editor for Minerva Rising Press.
image: D.T. Robbins
Body of a Whale as a Doorway written and read by Danielle Weeks
Danielle Weeks received her MFA in poetry through Eastern Washington University’s creative writing program. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in
Columbia Poetry Review,
Third Coast, among others, and her poem “Human Uses” was chosen as the winner of
Atticus Review’s annual poetry contest in 2018. Danielle currently lives in Spokane and works for the Children s Home Society of WA.
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