Bayonne Bridge, A. E. Weisgerber
“Come walk along the Bayonne sky / and pause above the Kill Van Kull.”

The Identity of Indiscernibles, Miles Greaves
“I had read once that there was no such thing as pure identity; that there was no property equal to being me, or being this, or being that; that there was no black cue ball lolling in my stomach, with my name tattooed across its equator, that could be used to pick me out of a parade of all things, like toasters and lollipops, when all else failed—”

About People of Glass and Stone, Sergey Gerasimov
“When it got dark, he used a trick his father had taught him once: he raised his head to the sky and howled, imitating the wolf’s call.”

Broadside, Hamdy Elgammal
“I stood beside the car and saw my face reflected in a flint of damaged window—my face older and more fractured than I knew what to do with. I thought of how things were when I was younger, of Mary Perkins.”

haiku, Nick Corvino
“Mint sprouts / on squirrel bones—”

Cover art: Rise and with the Valkyries Fly, Samuel Snoek-Brown