AGNI 103

AGNI 103

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysHybridPoetryArt Feature

Editor’s Note

To Be in a Time of War
by Shuchi Saraswat

Fiction

Domestic Scene with Suspended Child
by Jan Carson
I Am Here
by Khalida Hussain
Translated from the Urdu by Farah Ali
Gun Stories
by Jane Morton
The Weird Wrong Drawers
by Maggie Mull
Same Old Story
by Leeor Ohayon
The Intern
by Leyla Shukurli
Translated from the Russian by Sabrina Jaszi
The Cowherd
by Charu Sinha
New River Cinema
by Andrew Zornoza

Essays

My Teacher
by John Cotter
Mardi Gras
by Christie Hodgen
Varieties of the mortal and ghostly I
by Mark Irwin
Mr. Nobody
by Ashaki M. Jackson
If Knowledge Is a Splintering
by Mairead Small Staid
Homecoming
by May Teng

Hybrid

Feast: Hors d’Oeuvres
by Caroline Crew

Poetry

lullaby
by Jike Ayou
Translated from the Chinese by Yě Yě
the thirtieth year not worth a dime
by Jike Ayou
Translated from the Chinese by Yě Yě
the ticket home
by Jike Ayou
Translated from the Chinese by Yě Yě
The Gunroom
by Jan Beatty
The Avenue
by Dmitry Blizniuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Sergey Gerasimov
The Swan
by Victoria Chang
The Swan, No. 17 (Hilma af Klint)
by Victoria Chang
Another Guarantee of Protection
by Hayan Charara
Metaphysics
by Hayan Charara
Stay In Your Lane
by Hayan Charara
Crimean Sestina
by Giovanna Frene
Translated from the Italian by Joel Calahan
Frisian Horse
by Giovanna Frene
Translated from the Italian by Joel Calahan
On an Ancient Vase
by Giovanna Frene
Translated from the Italian by Joel Calahan
Poet-pig who knows me, in the blindness, in the bog
by Hilda Hilst
Translated from the Portuguese by Justin Greene
The Return of the Magi
by Andrew Hudgins
Videos of the Moon
by Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong
When history arrived,
by Rachel Kaufman
Light and Chapel
by Sydney Lea
from I Was Part Child
by Olga Livshin
Amy Winehouse as the thirty-sixth saint at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
In the dream where the cherry blossoms stay you’re always already gone
by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
Arf
by Campbell McGrath
Descent
by Campbell McGrath
Needlework
by Campbell McGrath
A Fragment
by D. Nurkse
Reign of the Image
by D. Nurkse
The Country of Exile
by D. Nurkse
The value of things
by Guillermo Rebollo Gil
Annunciation, Part III
by Talin Tahajian
If You Asked Me To I Would
by Talin Tahajian
Hummingbird
by Steven H. Turrill
It’s All Right It’s Okay There’s Something to Live For
by Jeff Whitney
What, ultimately, are we doing here?
by Jeff Whitney
The Head of Goliath
by Phillip B. Williams
Le temps mort
by Jenny Xie
Midnight Canyon
by Jenny Xie

Art Feature

Somewhere Love Is Always Arriving
by Danielle Mckinney
Intention for Sisters (essay)
by Tracy K. Smith