Issue 3: Ubi Sunt
ubi sunt - where are…?
We noticed a heavy dose of nostalgia in this issue’s pieces. The word nostalgia comes from the roots nostos and algos - meaning homecoming and suffering, respectively. Typically nostalgia is thought of as happy memories, but etymology always leads us down a more complex path.
Each piece has been placed into a summertime symbol of nostalgia - perseid to represent emotions, midnight sun to represent the past and sirius to represent relationships.
We hope reading these pieces will conjure up memories good, bad and in between - perhaps giving some of those buried long ago a second chance.
David and Katie, Editors
perseid

the lake is empty, the people are paper dolls - Poetry by Soheon Rhee

Solar Flare - Poetry by Jasmina Kuenzli

Los Angeles Variations - Poetry by Síofra McSherry

2300 Kilos - Prose by Leandra Lee

I Think of My Death (After Tu Fu) - Poetry by George Freek

Waiting for rain - Poetry by Taiwo Hassan

Brother - Poetry by Elizabeth Nelson

House For Sale - Prose by Katelyn Botsford Tucker

What have we - Poetry by Susan G. Duncan

Please Put Your Seats in the Upright Position - Poetry by Carolyn Whitnall

Passages - Poetry by Yvonne Zipter

a brief meditation on fear - Poetry by Taofeek Ayeyemi

Tomorrow, Nathan - Prose by Will McMillan
midnight sun

Passage - Poetry by Chase Ferree

walking meditation (kinhin) - Poetry by Geraldine Fleming

Dandelions - Poetry by Keira Schaefer

Salt and Vinegar - Prose by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

Upon Arrival in the Philippines - Poetry by Bruce Parker

Desecration - Poetry by Carrie Almir

Heartache Atheism - Poetry by June Lin

Spaghetti Sundays - Prose by Kim Murdock

If You Can Overlay the Golden Ratio On That Meme of Bernie Sanders in his Mittens I Bet You Could Do It With Everything - Poetry by Christopher Clauss

Lyre - Poetry by Tryn Brown

Lilith - Poetry by Marc Alan Di Martino

Amphibious Love - Poetry by Stephanie Parent

Garden Child, I'll Keep You Safe - Prose by Shaun Byron Fitzpatrick
sirius

closeness - Poetry by Zoe Cunniffe

Restless - Poetry by Bethany Aylward

Roadside Beauties - Poetry by Alex C. Eisenberg

Fire in a Tipi - Poetry by Tina Lear

Back to the Start - Prose by Cheryl Suma

The Little Tikes Tower - Poetry by Chris Lim

astrology - Poetry by Kayleigh Sim

cactus, placed against the city (for Asim Abu Shakra) - Poetry by Jonathan Chan

Closure - Prose by Zoa Coudret

Guinevere's Lament - Poetry by Betsy Packard

Ice - Poetry by Camille Lewis

Cages - Poetry by Justin Michael Terry

Sweet Leaf - Poetry by Matthew Schultz