ISSUE Five Featured Editorial October 2025 Sick Note by Adam Tavel Postcolonial-settlement’s daughter by Dorothy Lune The Orchard Path by Victoria Addis On Patience by Isabella G. Mead The witch is with child by Christina Hennemann Cormorant by Charlie Williams The Sparrow’s Question by Mrinalini Harchandrai A Tombstone Near My Home by Sumayya Arshed My city stained with fire by Vanessa Ackerman I call my mother by her childhood nickname, by Mary Mulholland One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy by Ashish Kumar Singh epiphany on the evening shift by Aries M. Gacutan Luke’s Island, Nova Scotia by Bill Garvey Written for a Grasshopper by Kris Spencer Rotor by Ann Shenfield Four Omens in Three Days by Doug Ramspeck Element by Bobbie Sparrow Shivers by Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi Long Haul by Sinéad Griffin Seven Days in a Cloud Forest by Susanne Kennedy The New Jet by Oz Hardwick Appetite by Rowan Tate Look at the Deer by Robert McDonald I visit July in the park; we have been strangers by Jen Horsfall The Body as an Altar in the Understory by Erin Wilson