Sleep Training the Minotaur, Sarp Sozdinler
“At night, it dreams / of a smaller labyrinth—”

Eric Wears, John Repp
“Eric wears a retro-1950s pompadour & shares / a fraught lunch with the guy who will be // The New Guy till a newer guy arrives.”

Schrödinger’s Poptart, September Woods Garland
“Death devoured his beloved over the course of a waxing moon, blackness creeping up her fingers and toes like a morbid thermometer. He cried at her bedside, holding her hand and begging for a do-over.”

haunting, a séance nijuin renku, Nicholas De Marino
“chanting down Samhain / bare prayers and skin / strip spirit’s veil”

Sievers, William Bonfiglio
“In cell after cell, he captures again / the gothic arch-barns in muted hues, / the correction houses near Göttingen.”

late night at bungie’s, Beatrice Bleakley
“He looks a little more straitlaced than his normal midnight clientele. Dave’s pretty sure he sees a priest’s collar under the battered leather jacket he’s wearing, although it doesn’t seem to fit him well. But Dave’s not here to judge.”

Cover art: Lost Crazy, Bianca Blaut