Sex & Death 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• Élan Vital

  Ben George

Out of Place

• •Skeptics

  David Gessner

Fiction

• A Sort of Miracle

  Ron Rash

• •My Nonsexual Affair

  Andy Mozina

• The Traitor of Zion

  Ben Stroud

• •Arboretum

  David Philip Mullins

• •I Am Grand Rapids

  George Singleton

• •Vallies

  Edith Pearlman

Nonfiction

• Gas-Pump Cowgirl, 1966

• Sign Here If You Exist

  Jill Sisson Quinn

• A Yard of Cloth

  Annie Proulx

• Memorandum to the Animals

  Amy Leach

• Each in Its Proper Place

  Meehan Crist

• A Disturbance of Birds

  Terry Tempest Williams

Poetry

• •Chelonian Rhapsody

  Charles Harper Webb

• Pass It On

  Charles Harper Webb

• Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast

  Hannah Gamble

• White Narcissus

  Jason Myers

• Falling Asleep near a Statue of the Poet Timrod

  Jason Myers

• Why Everything Is a Poem

  John Rybicki

• I Saw a Whiskey Bottle Turn into a Drop of Rain

  John Rybicki

• •I’m Only Sleeping

  John Rybicki

• Steelheading

  Robert Aquinas McNally

• from Wyoming Song

  Lucas Howell

• Voyeurs

  Paisley Rekdal

• Flowers from a New Love
  after the Divorce

  Paisley Rekdal

• self-exam (my body is a cage)

  Nick Flynn

• Party for Alumni

  Mark Halliday

• Quite Frankly

  Mark Halliday

• Durance

  Mark Halliday

• Thrall

  Natasha Trethewey

Reclamation

• •The Nameless Pioneer: James Salter’s “Akhnilo”

  Benjamin Percy

• Akhnilo

  James Salter

Map

• Two Abodes

  Aislinn Forbes

The Strip

• A Late Freeze

  Danica Novgorodoff