This is an Intersection

This is an Intersection

POETRY This is an Intersection by Celia Easton Koehler Illustration by Annabelle Bullock this is an intersection the picnic table arranges spaceconstructs a room gravel island between street and railroad towing enforced at all times once red now pink tow truck...
Parasaurolophus Song

Parasaurolophus Song

POETRY Parasaurolophus Song by Jasper Beck Photo by Viggo Beck Parasaurolophus Song maybe like a saxophone playedthrough cranial crest, crooningheartthrob blues, but scaled up,so much bigger than us, we assumethey ruled the earth. maybe like a bull elk bugle, a...
Newberry Lava Love

Newberry Lava Love

POETRY Newberry Lava Love by Kit Evans Photo by Daniel Tankersley Newberry Lava Love Lemon vodka on the lips, your huge handwrapped around my whole fist, hurdlingthrough forested slopes in my Jeep.The pines end. Pocked rock starts.Petrified lava flows from 7,000 years...
Two Poems

Two Poems

POETRY BY Trinity Herr Photo by Camden Jones Controlled Burning It blisters down to boundaries —marked and measured. Dig the fire lines wide — wider, even, that the breadth of our campfire,the metal ring circling it —these rounds we rest on. Whoever’s in charge,...
Small Thirst

Small Thirst

POETRY Small Thirst by Jackson Mills Smith Photo by Jackson Mills Smith Small Thirst Some stand along a snowbankat the pass and knockthe powder from a Douglas firlike a five-piece band on Highway 26. Having tested and pried and workedin many faiths, there’s a...
Spitting Distance

Spitting Distance

POETRY Spitting Distance by Sam Bovard Illustration by Sam Bovard Spitting Distance Yellow ore-rich dirt spilled outfrom the long-abandoned orifice,where men once toiled blindlyto bring silver into the sunlight. As wereached the final basin above the mine,the misty...