Issue 42.2

Graphic image of a woman floating in the air knitting the aurora

cover image by Isabel Miller

 

Featuring: 2020 New Alchemy Contest Winner 鈥 Monica Ong

 

 

 

Mi Shebeirach for Miami; or, Magic City Lockdown 鈥 Jen Karetnik

How to Divine Poetry 鈥 Kameron Ray Morton

The Word You Should Never Say 鈥 David Starkey

/ myul /as in 鈥渁 mewl of clouds鈥 鈥 Mary Buchinger

Xenolith 鈥 Nathaniel Youmans

Woolly 鈥 Brittney Corrigan

Free Throw Evaluation of Mom & Safety Information for a New Marriage 鈥 Ashley Memory

Words for My Daughter After Watching Her Dance to 鈥楪irls鈥 鈥 Dante Di Stefano

 

 

Sensation Seeking Behavior 鈥 Carolyn Orosz

You and Me 鈥 Seth Gleckman

Afternoon Meditation 鈥 Natasha Deonarain

Microcosm 鈥 Grace Wagner

Colony Collapse 鈥  R.S. Wynn

 

 

 

On the Shore of the Sea of Songs 鈥 Kelly Kiehl Davis

True Paths 鈥 Kathryn Smith

KIDS WITH NO RELIGION 鈥 Elana Lev Friedland

The Night (After Psalm 2) 鈥 James Miller

Allecto and How Great is Our God! 鈥 Casey Epstein-Gross

Another Dream of Death and Born Again in the Light of Self 鈥 Brandi George

 

 

 

The Man Who Loved Cribbage 鈥 Sharon L. Dean

You Could Become Land 鈥 Rebecca Young

The Coyote 鈥 Grace Wagner

IT WAS NOBODY 鈥 Stephen Massimilla

Dream Catch 鈥 Jeff Tigchelaar

What Is It Like to Live in a Body? 鈥 Trenton Pollard

 

 

 

resources 鈥 Tess Fahlgren

The Manna 鈥 Tyler Wells Lynch

Prospects for Survival 鈥 Kathryn Smith

ghost tour 鈥 Patrick Kindig

Firn 鈥 Claire McQuerry

Being Afraid Isn鈥檛 Enough 鈥 Gary McDowell

Reckoning 鈥 Greg Emilio

 

 

Black Trees Whose Names You Never Wanted to Know 鈥 Richard Widerkehr

I can鈥檛 remember if she liked broccoli 鈥 Leah White

Elevation 鈥 Alfredo Lafarga

Given 鈥 Liza Katz Duncan

Discarnate 鈥 Melanie Sevcenko

Mitosis Lullaby 鈥 Robert Evory