September 2021

Cover artist: Jianan Liu/goodillustration.com

Becoming the doors we’ve
closed, those I’ve learned
to open with a tongue.
Justin Danzy

Article

Poem

Su Cho
- Editor’s Note
Justin Danzy
- Tongues
Ina Cariño
- Hibiscus Dream No. 4
- Native Title
Daye Phillippo
- Blue Chore Coat
Danni Quintos
Jim Whiteside
- Neighbors
Jai Hamid Bashir
- And the Word for Moonlight Is My Name
Saddiq Dzukogi
- Ring
Lisa Low
Eugenia Leigh
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Han (한 / 恨)
- My Whole Life I Was Trained to Deny Myself
Philip Metres
- Never Describe the Sky as Azure
- Remorse for Temperate Speech
Fritz Ward
- Love Letter from Inside Fatherhood
Christell Victoria Roach
RK Fauth
- This Is Not about Us (It’s Just about Desire and the Plague)
- Queer Appalachia
Chris Santiago
- El Pollo Loco, West Los Angeles
Janelle Tan
- Turnstile Jumping
Jinhao Xie
- moonlight
- Chocolate
Gabriel Dozal
- The Border Simulator
- Me and Primi, We Love Sleeping Across the Border
Marianne Chan

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