Untelling

Untelling   4
From the Editor   8
From the Archive   101
From the Still Library   103
Artist Bios   106

POETRY

The Groundhog Knows One Big Thing  10 
 Annie Woodford

Supper   13
  Flossie Hedges

art was killed by the company man  18 
  Nik Lee

A Record of the First Year of Our             Son’s Life   20
  Caleb Johnson

Diner Service   28
  Gabriel Welsch 

You Ask if I Want You to Buy Me a Star   30 
  Marjorie Maddox 

Practicing the Alphabet   31 
  Silvia McClamrock

A Partial Glossary of Rain  37 
  Doug Van Gundy

North Fork Flood, 1963   38 
  Flossie Hedges

Mushrooms   39 
  Joshua Gage

Daughter   41 
  Loren Crawford

Dis(illusion)   50 
  Natalie Kimbell 

Jars of Green Beans   52 
  MJ Hatfield

Heartbeat   54
  Joshua Gage

Harsh Lessons in Magical Realism, Appalachia   59 
  Annie Woodford 

Black Walnuts  60 
  Susan O’Dell Underwood 

Theory of Relativity  63 
  Marjorie Maddox

Sycamores   63 
  Doug Van Gundy 

The Rain that Fell Just Short of Where I Stood   66 
  Karen Holmes

The Owl Said  69
  Ashley Bunton 

To the Woman Who Died Just Right   70 
  Karen Holmes

All the Ways I Tried to ██ Before Kindergarten   72

  Ashley Bunton  

Boneyard Communion 1929   75 
  Wendy Jett

Honky Tonk   76
  Clinton W. Waters

An Appalachian Meditation from the Desert  79 
  Susan O’Dell Underwood

Charlie Turner’s Coca-Cola Drinking Bear  80 
  Wally Smith 

Given to Drink  82 
  Flossie Hedges

My Father Does Not Hunt   87
  Lora Eli Smith 

The Alabama Whitetail Records Museum   90 
  Caleb Johnson 

Epilepsy Grammar Lesson   96 
  Angie Mimms

A Driveway Mandala Made of Three-Point Turns  98 
  Andrew Butler

Hunger  103
  George Ella Lyon

The Outermost Dream  105
  Denton Loving