JULY 2025 / ISSUE 47

on fire again: POEMS

by Sarah Joseph-Alexandre

there has never been a better view of you,
glistening gloriously while NPR warns
of the hottest year on record—

What’s the Difference

by Micky (Maaike) Neuville

what's the difference / between the mother with a suitcase and a child on a black and white photograph soon about to die because someone had decided—

INTO THE FIRE

by Emma Ruth Anderson

“Clear!” The exclamation echoes down the grid line. You get up and keep moving systematically across your chunk of burned ground, guided by repeating chants of

Heatwave

by Katie Olson Ashfar

Plants whimper green panic in the yard.
So hot the breeze is dangerous and insects show up in new places beetles I’ve never seen upside down in the

MIDWAY BETWEEN THERE AND HERE

by Sarah Kowalski

Windows up, already hot at 9 a.m., AC on, a thin breeze against your wrist. The first few notes of Heroin on the car stereo, PLING din-din-din-din-din…

FECUNDATION

by Barbara Maria DeSilva

I want you to fuck me in the field with the flowers
Press me against the
corn flower - red clover - sweet alyssum