I leaned in to listen to how they remembered the dying back when they had been alive together. I anticipated grieving myself; I had called the adoption agency. 

 

In Light of All The Suicides
Crystal Ignatowski

 

Hannah, you are somewhere now. Tucked
around the landscape
like a fitted sheet around a bed.

 

Bird of Paradise
Joe Woodward

 
 

You’ve always been embarrassed by
The bare dirt patches
For which summer
Isn’t entirely to blame
Though you shouldn’t be

 
 

Volume XLIV

Artwork by Julie Hamilton

"Alchemical Poetry" - Dreama J. Kattenbraker, mixed media on canvas, 36" x 60"