AGNI 95
Contents
Editor's Note
Interiors
Fiction
Next of Kin
The River Is a Man
Cyborg’s Brother
There Is Nobody Here but Us
Essays
The past is gone and you can’t get it back
By Nin Andrews
Pacing Tigers
Dear Person Who I Loved, Back When I Mistook Letters for Love
By Carrie Cogan
Florida, Farewell
Three Horses
By Sarah Gorham
Postcards of the Night Sky
By Kelle Groom
Shelf Life
Hybrid
Manual for a Galactic Alter Ego
Poetry
At the Autoimmune Retreat
Exposures
By Emma Aylor
Speaker
By Emma Aylor
Winter Photographs
By Don Bogen
from Therapon III
By Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick
Judith or Salomé or Herodias
Lowrider
By Jan Beatty
Perfect Happiness (from the Innocent Love Series), 1999
Untitled #12, 1981
Happiness (from the Innocent Love Series), 1999
look, Lord
Catalytic Converters
By Fleda Brown
Two Stories
Long Tall Fence
Week 24: Pomegranate
—Disappearance—Nativity
By Lynn Emanuel
Un-epithalamium
By Liza Flum
Where Corn Husks Crosshatch Fields
By K. A. Hays
Hollowed
Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table
from Heartwood
Chagall’s A Wheatfield on a Summer’s Afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bitch under a Tree Eating Wendy’s
sometimes conversation is unnecessary
By Lynette Ng
The North
By D. Nurkse
The Holding At Graylock
By D. Nurkse
Camouflage
Poem Not Intended to Stand in Contrast to Anything for Once
Place Names
Magical Thinking
By Ellen Rogers
Self-Portrait as Midwest Dawn
By Bruce Snider
When people traveled to the worry well
Conflicts and reckonings. Flags held and changed and changed again, in Ukrainian poet Yuliya Musakovska’s “Such Love” (translated with Olena Jennings) and Robert Pinsky’s “Place Names.” Journeys at the edge of competing intentions, in stories by Koye Oyedeji and Mariana Villas-Boas. Prose from the multiplicities of self by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Kelle Groom, and Khairaini Barokka. And poems that reexamine the surface, by Victoria Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Charlie Clark, and D. Nurkse. Artist Andrea Chung tears through the cover.