61.2 – WINTER 2023

CONTENTS

“groceries arrive at the light station” Tazi Rodrigues
“(coming out to) baba” Courtney WZ
“my daughter is an esl teacher” Yasmina Jaksic
“Czech is a Difficult Language” Alexandra Trnka
“星星 (Xing Xing)” Lizzy Ke Polishan
“Doxology” Katherine DeCoste
“What Are You Doing Here?” Vicki McLeod
“Jump Scare” Daniel Zomparelli
“Let’s go around the table and each share one
weird thing” Michelle Brown
“We left the AC on” Jack Lancaster
“Making Faces” Catriona Wright
“Ryōanji Rock Garden” Mormei Zanke
“Klojer” William Bonfiglio
“The Thing That’s Wrong With Me” Terese Brasen
“In Sickness And In Death” Charlie Petch
“Fall comes after a long time of nothing” Nadia Froese
“An Unobtrusive Bird” Aefa Mulholland
“One Polka” Joan M. Baril
“You water the garden in the evening when the heat
of the day has passed” Jo Gatford
“Hello, How Can I Help You?” Carolyn Chung