Fall 2026

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Fall 2026

Table of Contents

To Our Readers

To Our Readers

Fiction

An Illusory Spirit

Grandma’s Prayer, translated from the Bulgarian by Yana Ellis

Lying

Saboteurs

The School of How Can I Live

Poetry

[As when, freshly torn from the parent sun] & [As in cliffhanger]

[I was in a hotel room, in an upper]; [I dreamed of my maternal grandmother, she and I]; [we were standing in the playroom, now the sunroom,]; & [i dreamed of my paternal grandparents; they were both in the dream,]

[Undulation :: The Cormorant’s Body]; [Undulation :: They Say]; [Undulation :: gotas de agua]; [Undulation :: Delicately Down]

A Marble & Meeting My Oldest Friend, Bill Schroeder, again in 2025, after Decades

Advice for Writing a Poem

Cat Jazz & Classical Music for Losers

Cities of Shade and Light & Cities of Light and Shade

Confessio Amantis

Date Night with Skunk; Our Texas; & We Were in Japan Trying for the Second Baby

Fire

Gloss: Error; A Memory; & Permanence

Greenwich Mean Time & Market Basket, translated from the Persian with an introduction by Kaveh Bassiri

Latin; Hercules and Achelous; & Freeing the Metrics of Catullus (poem II)

on “Architecture”; on “Emptiness”; on “Desire”; & on “Being Held”

Sheet 10; Arsenal; Canticle of Stone; & Flame

The Color of Grief; Domestic Interior; In the Artist’s Studio; Little Girl What Happened to You; & Craquelure

The Hills & The Long Field

the present & frederick

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Albinoni’s Adagio for Organ and Strings in G Minor

Tonight, the Wildest Stars & The End of Peach Season

When history arrived, & When history arrived,