In this issue:

POETRY

Ramadan, Sihle Ntuli 20 // French Kisses, Nicole Gowar 22 // Potpourri and Smoke, Phelelani Makhanya 24 // Women in dust coats, Phelelani Makhanya 25 // Days are plotting, Phelelani Makhanya 26 // Freeze, Kaylin Adamson 27 // Women, Kaylin Adamnson 28 // Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes, Mark Kaye 29 // Vampierinkvis (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn 30 // Lauttasaari Akker M1 Espoo-Helsinki, 2021, Charika Swanepoel 31 // Googleseeds, Nicole Thackwray 34 // 97, Coming to Terms & Goodbye (An atheist faces his own death), Michael Lee Johnson 36 // Insect, Austin Alexis 37 // Multi-coloured, Sarah Katz 38 // Night Once More, Bradley Chowles 39 // Vurige Passie, Juhné van Zyl 42 // organ of remorse, Ian Bell 43 // the baby in the box, Ian Bell 44 // Learning to Dance, Jamie Conway 45 // Bodily Way of Knowing, Adam Day 46 // A Kind of Silence, Adam Day 47 // The Wife, Sarah Frost 48 // To The Good Men, Dshamilja Roshani 49 // New Place, Bibhu Padhi 50

PROSE

The Private Parts of a Cobra, Ntombi Kayise Mhlambi 55 // Groundwater, Lukho Witbooi 48 // The Chair, Alistair Mackay 58 // Just Above My Head, Abigail George 67

ARTWORK

Kosie Thiart, Lazarus Taxon 18 // Hessian Shark 52-53 // Totem of resurrection 51 // Feral Child 92