The Moon Issue 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •An Abundance of Os

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Eclipse

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Missing Girl

  Lauren Hohle

• •Non-erotic Space Fantasy

  Lee Conell

• Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You?

  Clare Beams

• •Ma Barker Floats Across Lake Weir

  Keri Miller

Nonfiction

• The Witch Dreams of Black Bulls

  Lina M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

• The Moon Moves

  Elissa Favero

Poetry

• The Return

  Linda Hogan

• Okchamahli

  Linda Hogan

• Bleachflood

  Amit Majmudar

• •73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings)

  Nathaniel Perry

• September Lament after an August Away

  Susan Blackwell Ramsey

• •Solo

  Susan McLean

• Moon Jelly

  Lisa Williams

• Moon Jelly II

  Lisa Williams

• •An Amateur Malacologist Recalls His Mother’s Stories about the Tree Snail’s Song

  Derek N. Otsuji

• Rondeau for a Long-distance Love

  Allison Joseph

• Late Night Letdown

  Katherine Indermaur

• Ghost Fishing

  Sara Kass

• Solstice

  Hailey Leithauser

• Message

  Hailey Leithauser

• The Thirst Comes With the Drinking

  Hailey Leithauser

• •Pancake Ode

  Molly Peacock

• •Firefly Ode

  Jason Gray

• A hard-edged glow

  Rachel Nelson

• Look Up Mammal

  Carolyn Oliver

• •Bedtime Story for a Father

  Alejandro Lucero

• Revelation of the Porpoise

  Su Love

• On the Verge

  Catalina Ocampo Londoño

• Herb Robert, which I find growing on a walk after class

  Jimmy Kindree

• Blessing for the End Times

  Julia Bouwsma

• Fall :: Bruegel Yellow

  Katharine Whitcomb

• Fall :: Viburnum

  Katharine Whitcomb

Map

• December: Green in Winter: On Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar

  Kristen Case

Art

• The Dreams of a Descendant of Sirenuse: Works in Glass

  Amber Cowan

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits