Art

Catherine Skinner

Editor’s Introduction

Test Site Finalists 

Jami Macarty (Test Site Poetry Award)

• Harbinger

• Of

• Seeker

• Who is responsible for the death of a woman

• Whole Catastrophe

Geoffrey Babbitt (Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award)

• His Flock

• Vision of Joseph the Carpenter

• The Ghost of a Flea

• Solitary Traveler with a Staff

Ned Balbo

• Oblivion’s Heron

• Memory and the Hive

• Metaphors for Tymbal Music

• Hatchling

• Jaguar Sun

Michael Tod Edgerton

• Drift-Draft Drop on 17th

• Missing You

• Raging

Nancy Einers

• A Whole Season of Lamination and Snow

• A Guest that Would Believe

• Even Now We Are Glowing

• The Drift of All of You

Dennis Finnell

• Hello. I’m nobody. Can we talk?

• Now it’s just a few drops

• What I was told:

• Today the world is:

• After the days

Robert Gibb

• Invasive

• Diptych (I)

• Diptych (II

• “Pittsburgh Coke Company…”

Joseph Lease

• [Two sections from Self-Portrait as the Downhill Slide]

Kimberly Ann Priest

• The Storyteller Speaks to a Bird about Dying

• On Wanting to Be Significant

• JOURNAL ENTRY written WHILE the First Saltmarsh Sparrows of Spring Visit My Window

Stephanie Strickland

• History of Knowledge: At the Tree

• For Kafka

• Offered Up

• Keeping Company with You: Coma

Translation

Translated by Khaled Mattawa

• A Swan May Come Flying

• O Tree Flowering with Birds!

• Sandpiper

• Icarus

• Starling Hunger

• Paradoxes

• Underwater Crossing

• Nostalgia

Book Review

Carol Ciamine reviewing Matthew Cooperman