In this issue, Emma Aylor questions why we are trained to accept pain by theories of normalcy in five poems beginning with “Sunday Evening.” Questions of youth, family dynamics, relational tensions, and how to care for oneself arise in Norie Suzuki’s “Faux Sweetheart Roses.” And Davin Malasarn explores what it means to be a man, and what it meant to his brother, in “Survival Test.”

Featured art: Anne Weston

Scanning electron microscope images by Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute.
From the Wellcome Trust Collection——Drosophilla eyes, Diatom frustule, Drosophila leg, Pancreatic cancer cell, White cells and platelet, Blood clot with crenated red cells

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