In this issue, a group of teenagers, fueled by drug and alcohol, flirt, kiss, and wade around a pool and hot tub in Kira Homsher’s “Year of the Rat.” Sarah Louise sits at the bedside and thinks through how best to wait for the inevitable in “A Cookie Can Do Almost Anything.” And Richard Lyons questions the division between memory and history in three poems beginning with “The Light Might Even Materialize.”