October 2022

Cover Artist: Isip Xin

The heart’s perhaps the most reliable clock we have.
Ross Gay

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Adrian Matejka
- Editor’s Introduction
Yusef Komunyakaa
- The Rented Boy
- At Top of the Staircase
Victoria Chang
Alex Dimitrov
- Birthday in Palm Springs
Karyna McGlynn
- Lionhearts
- When You’re Seventeen Everything Sounds like a Secret Anthem to Doom
Myronn Hardy
- Buccaneers: “Hollywood Africans,” 1983
Dāshaun Washington
- Bark
Trevor Ketner
- [My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun]
- [Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep]
Winniebell Xinyu Zong
- sundress: a burning haibun
Martín Espada
- Love Song of the Bat with Vertigo
- He Could Sing, but He Couldn’t Fly
Edgar Kunz
- From “Fixer”
Ladan Osman
- Sun to God (Gaza, 2021)
Ruth Ellen Kocher
- the last gods
Eugene Gloria
- Rizal upon Hearing David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”
Diane Seuss