• The Piper

    Victoria Chang

    Summer 2021

    What if there is no
    piper, if no music is
    coming from the hill,
    if the cross is just a cross?

    Victoria Chang’s most recent book is OBIT, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. OBIT received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award in Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Book Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Chang’s other poetry books are Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. She lives in Los Angeles.

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    Backyard Boats

    Henry Hughes

    On blocks and rusted trailers,
    cracked hatches, moldy seats, chewed wires—
    squirrels hulling acorns
    under a pitted propeller shaft.

    Dozens in town. Sun-cracked ski boats,
    bloated cruisers, McNary’s Catalina 22—
    dog sleeping on the dirty heap of sails. And our Whaler
    Dad keeps saying he’s gonna take out
    this year

    is filling with oak leaves again, bitter<b

    Self-Portrait as Portrait of the Erinyes Pursuing Orestes

    Erin Adair-Hodges

    It’s the song your mother lows, cradling her loosed womb,
          knowing too late what she’s made.

    Tomorrow

    D. Nurkse

    Can you make it to tomorrow? Can you hold out?

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