Shuly Xóchitl Cawood considers some rules for life in “How To Marry A Second Time.” In three poems including “Some Part of Me Loves Living More Than Life Allows For—”, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon plays with language as she explores loss, love, and aging. Commotion and sirens fill a seaside town in Susan Roger’s “Unmistakably Billy Williams.”

Featured art: The Reckless Moment

Image stills from The Reckless Moment, a 1949 American film directed by Max Ophüls and starring James Mason and Joan Bennett. The film is based on The Blank Wall (1947), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. 

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