Spring/Summer 2022 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Watering the Trees

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Safe Places

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •Everything Will Be All Right in the End

  Jerome Blanco

• •Owen

  Chioma Urama

• Symbiosis

  Vanessa Chan

Nonfiction

• Guided

  Joanna Brichetto

• The Apologetic Body

  Catherine Pierce

• •After Nothing Is Left, the Leaves . . .

  Marco Wilkinson

• Red Diagonal

  Gretchen VanWormer

• Blue Bricks Baby

  Elizabeth Horneber

• Your Perfection and Our Hope

  Mairin Odle

Poetry

• Pseudoscience

  Jane Zwart

• Dear Nintendo

  Lauren Winchester

• Get Out of My House

  Monica Rico

• why i never put rez or off rez on my resume

  Ibe Liebenberg

• Wolf OR-93

  Ibe Liebenberg

• •Garden Tip

  Susan Blackwell Ramsey

• Rose of Sharon (or, Sonnet Missing Two Lines Because the Baby Has a Cold)

  Kate Lebo

• Premenopausal red-tide death-period arrives while I walk with parents along Chesapeake beaches

  Catherine Carter

• •Earth says

  Catherine Carter

• Zeitgeist

  Rachel Richardson

• •Information Worker at the End of the World

  Stephanie Niu

• •The Value of a College Education

  Kristin Van Tassel

• •Riders

  Ruby Hansen Murray

• In the Beeswax Room

  Melissa Balmain

• The Pain of Uncertainty Index

  Mary Quade

• Home Remedies

  Ae Hee Lee

• •(Dis)ambiguation

  Ae Hee Lee

• Palimpsest

  Mary Pinard

• Enormous Glacier Calvings Montage

  Jessica Gigot

• Mimicry

  J.P. Grasser

• How We Knew

  Ashley Anna McHugh

Climate Annotations

• •Singing Inside a Tree

  Anne Haven McDonnell

Art

• •The Sun Still Shines

  Lisa Love Whittington

The Strip

• •Bubble Gum Fighters

  Rumi Hara

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits