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May 2022 | Issue #18

Art is truth setting itself to work. —Martin Heidegger

From the Editors      Makers

Wishes | Jocelyn Winn

mouth of yawning lion imposed over field of yellow dandelions

Wishes

Every year you destroyed and acquired me with all the glee of my yellow, rubber-like petals: lion’s teeth. In the too-hot May of the year you turned probably six, I watched your birthday party descend on my Dandelion Family. Was it worth the fleeting aesthetic—a day’s worth of arrangements—to erase me from your scene? I don’t grow back as easily as everyone thinks, my quick bud to seed belying my cheerful expression.

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faded polariod with mother walking in foreground toward small child a ways away in the background

My Friend Stacy Works in the Emergency Room | Cortney Davis

Dissection illustration of the arrangement of the cardiac nerves. . . in mammalia.

My Friend Stacy Works in the Emergency Room

―and during the pandemic sparks a love
for classical music, on her way to work

listens to Pavarotti, the audio clip
of his debut at twenty-six, filling in

for the great Giuseppe Di Stefano,
perhaps disappointing the audience

but they cheered when Pavarotti sang high C—
that impossible note— … Read more

What Is It? | James Landwehr

What Is It?

It is still a ways away. It is going to go away, you know. It is still there. It is, or it isn’t. It is in the mail. It is in the console. It is the perfect fit. It is me versus you. It is something we can all
look back to. It is forward-looking. It is around here somewhere. It is the American Dream. It is far from my reach. It is only six weeks until raise time. It’s not any kind of guarantee. It is destined for nowhere. It is written in Sanskrit. It is translated to mean something unknown. It is … Read more

abstract painting with shades of yellow, pink, and orange, the top 2/3 in geometric pattern, the bottom 1/3 in grass-like pattern
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