For Oryx, the Taken King Once I could have loved. But love was cleaved damp from my body. Carved soft and wet from the rest of my hard existence, cast aside, with everything that could be renamed “submission.” Power is easy; it costs only cruelty. A sword is not a weapon, or a tool. It…
TABLE OF CONTENT
POETRY
- Matthias Mann — TO SLEEP
- Nick Visconti — YOU, FLOWER
- James McKee — AUTUMN EXIT
- Ken Norris — MOMENT
- Sneha Subramanian Kanta — [PURGATORY IN PARIS]
- Nora Hikari — ODE TO THE SWORD LOGIC
- Shane Neilson — SACRED TECHNICIAN
- John Kinsella — RADIESTHESIA
- Courtney Bates-Hardy — PAIN WOMEN
- Mark Neely — ANOTHER IDIOT
- Peter Grandbois — CROW FINDS A GRAIN OF SAND LODGED IN THE BACK OF HIS EYE
- Zak Jones — NO PHOTOS OF RALPH
- Constance Hansen — OR THE ORB
- George Looney — REMEMBERING THE SCENT OF FRESH-MOWN HAY
- Leanne Charette — VEHOPHOBIA
- Jan Jorgensen — DESDEMONA REBUKES OTHELLO
- Caitlyn Alario — STRAY
- Chris Johnson — YOU’RE LIVING NOW
- Caitie L. Young — SOME CALIFORNIA POLICE ARE BIASED. A REPORT SAYS THEY HAVE NO CLEAR PLANS TO FIX THAT
- Bruce Meyer — FRIENDSHIP IS A SUMMER THAT NEVER SHEDS ITS LEAVES
- Ken Victor — ANTHROPOLOGY
- Kat Cameron — OPEN FOURTH
- Terry Watada— VISIONS OF CHISATO
- Ami J. Sanghvi — SOFT-SKIN DARLINGS OF THE TUNDRA (1)
- Ayesha Chatterjee — SEPTEMBER
- Rachel Aviva Burns — FIRST FLIGHT
- Kit Roffey — VESSEL
- Evan J — ON A HILL NEAR STAIG
2022 Vallum Chapbooks
Interview
- Rosie Long Decter – A Conversation with Frankie Barnet on Kim: A Novel Idea
REVIEWS
- rob mclennan – REVIEW OF JUDITH: WOMEN MAKING VISUAL POETRY, ed. AMANDA EARL+++
- Bill Neumire – REVIEW OF I WISH I COULD BE PETER FALK by PAUL ZITS; and REVIEW OF GARDEN PHYSIC by SYLVIA LEGRIS;
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