Editorial

This issue turns its attention to residue, the part of everything that refuses to leave. Whatever we burn, build, release, or love leaves a remainder behind. The fire goes out and the air still carries it. The factory closes and the soil keeps the ledger. Residue is the world's long memory, the proof that nothing simply ends…

Editor’s Picks

if not for the persistent car noises that I hate by Alec H Clark
Lichen by Mary Mulholland
Lough by Alan Kennedy-Asser
Savior and Sin by Isabel Carmen Johnson

Poems

Cormorant Wildfire Blues by Meg Freer
Fly-tipping by Craig Dobson
Fukushima by Robert René Galván
if not for the persistent car noises that I hate by Alec H Clark
Lichen by Mary Mulholland
Lough by Alan Kennedy-Asser
Lungs Grey with Smoke by Alex De Koning
Nowhere near here is a jabberwocky by Wendy Schaffer
Passage by Jeff Howard
Proving I’m a Bar Above My Asymptotically Equivalent Evil (with apologies to the laws of mathematics and morality) by Eleanor Jane Turner

Pseudo-nitzschia australis by Deidre Cavazzi
ruins by Shaun Hil
Savior and Sin by Isabel Carmen Johnson
Shedding Light on ALAN by Deborah Lloyd
Sick Building by Susan Richardson
Stirrings in the Hadal Deep by Angela Posada-Swafford
Summer Bandshellby Christa Fairbrother
The Great Ocean Cleanup by Kathleen P. Decker
Vistas by Catherine McGuire
Where do you think it goes? by Tim Ellis

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