February 2021

Cover art by Damon Locks; guest edited by Joshua Bennett, Tara Betts, and Sarah Ross

That which has become
that which is still becoming
and that which is owed.
Durlene Westfall

Christopher Malec
Justin Rovillos Monson
Sable Elyse Smith
Connie Leung
V. Ruiz

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Article

To Keep a Green Branch from Snapping

Poem

“Fog Count”: Inmates Walk from Chow

A Flower in the Burn Scar

Tara Betts
- To Keep a Green Branch from Snapping
T.L. Perez
- “Fog Count”: Inmates Walk from Chow
Rick Anderson
- A Flower in the Burn Scar
- The Ghosts Are Laughing
Davi Gray
- Disaster Is in the Eye of the Beholder
George T. Wilkerson
- section eight
Elvis Alves
- Parchman Prison
Spoon Jackson
- At Night I Fly
- Old School
Mike Owens
- In My Cell
Devon Terrell
- Gambler’s Remorse
- Leroy Went North (1973)
Darrell B. Grayson
- Ghosts Over the Boiler
Janine Solursh
- Forgotten Portraits
Leigh Sugar
- Freeland: An Erasure
Justin Rovillos Monson
- From “Weapon or Considering the Evidence Against Me”
- Notes for If I Fade Away [“tell them—inside the language”]
- Notes for If I Fade Away [“this is to remind you that I loved you”]
Jill McDonough
- Freedom
- Donuts in Kid-Jail
Kirk Nesset
- One Place Is as Good as the Next
Clemonce Heard
- School-to-Prison Pants
- Paper Cells
Emile DeWeaver
- Profile
Andrey Egorov
- Warm Colors
- Manuscript Found in a Nutshell
- Iram of the Myriad of Pillars
Seven Scott
- Burial Details
Gary Farlow
- Fragment of a Dream
Jonaki Ray
- 99
- Lessons in Bending
LaVon Johnson
- A Cause for Celebration
Kim Roberts
- Two Hands
Christopher Malec
- Bruises
Cody Carvel
- Achilles and the Tortoise
Tiffany Melanson
- The Road to Meet You: Tomoka Correctional Institution
- Check-in: Tomoka Correctional Institution
Damon Locks
- The Evidence That We Are Here
Pamela Cochran
- Poesy
- Greed
V. Ruiz
- In a dream my dead Tío tells me he’s happy
- Smoke Clouds
Tim Casarez
- Old Songs
Michael Torres
- My Brother Is Asking for Stamps
- Because My Brother Knows Why They Call Them “County Blues,” but Won’t Tell Me Why
Jennifer DeMott
- “Tina”
- Forgotten
Nina Sitlington
- The Cycle
John Radford
- Bone
C.A. McAllister
- Meanwhile, Under Colorado ...
Cyrus Armajani
- Home
Sable Elyse Smith
- From “Coloring Book Series”
Hussain Ahmed
- Wi-Fi in a Prison Yard
Connie Leung
- Allegiance
- Autumn in Prison
Durlene Westfall
- Fate