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"They Say That Our Love Is Pecuilar" by Santiago Hellen

"Jacob rides the sun at noon when shadows shrink at night astride a pointed moon in purples and in pinks in green coolness between grass and leafy trees" thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/tim-… From "Skateboarding the Oceans" by Tim Rogers

"We were like plastic food inside a vitrine. We were some of the only people alive." From "The Party" by Matthew McBride thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/matt…

"Performance" by Mario Loprete thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/mari…

"three heavily footnoted pages in the 1999 critical text of the Anthology by Johannes Stobaeus edited by Kurt Wachsmuth and Otto Hense for the German publisher Weidmann." From "Poet's Note on the Delphic Sonnets" by Jordi Alonso thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/jord…

"I can only tell you what I feel: no hunger, no thirst, no sense that I will disappear like a vapor tank venting to atmosphere." From "On The Line" by Trapper Markelz thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/trap…

"How it rushes and spills, brims, leaks, floods and drowns." From "Watercourse" by David Dixon thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/davi…

"Water ebbs and laps at my feet; the flooded storm drain reflects blush clouds." From "Ebbing" by Natasha Kane thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/nata…

"We didn’t mean to cause a stir. All we wanted was a home, close to the beach, close to the kids’ school, with character and a yard." From "We Can’t Eat Grass" by Melissa Gopp-Warner thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/meli…

"The willow warbler launches his high soprano, then plummets down the scales until his music fizzles out." From "NOON CHORUS" by Michael Durack thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/mich…

"Bat memories are apricot scented and beat like hooves. The Christened bat stinks of rusk and milk" From "We’re Family" by Ava Patel thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/ava-…

"thin mud from snow melt thaw line deepens in sunlight matted grasses stand" From "Five from the Allegheny Plateau" by Mark Holian thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/mark…

"How deep and down do we go into dark to find, to pin together the good of our world." From "Stepping into Still Water" by Maxi Wardcantori thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/maxi…

"Statistically, Desert Marigold, neither you nor I are here at all. We are that improbable." From "Desert Marigold in Your Short Season" by Robin Scofield thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/robi…

"Autumn Glory" by Anne McDonald thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/anne…

"Walking over shimmering sidewalks, passing faces lit from within, I arrived at a meeting covered in sweat" From "Steps" by Michael Simms thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/mich…

"silence is space between things listen" From "Parts of Woods" by William Erickson thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/will…

"I can’t stop thinking about that hummingbird searching the glass. I don’t know if that just happens sometimes, a random mishap" From "Miracles" by Mistee St. Clair thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/mist…

"Into the blue bruise held captive by cracking grey sacks above a gull’s hysterical laughter shrieks." From "Varicose Veins" by Judith Borenin thebanyanreview.com/fall-2022/judi…