In this issue:

POETRY

A remembrance, Beth McDonough 23 // A dove on a cross, Michael Cope 24 // a nocturne in the rain, Ian Bell 25 // Artemisia dracunculus, Beth McDonough 26 // infinity minus, Italo Ferrante 27 // Looking for Answers, Bibhu Padhi 28 // Izincuncu Zomhlaba (Kaua’i ‘Ō‘ō), Sarah Guinevere Smit 29 // Religion, Kaylin Adamson 30 // Sometimes the moon, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka 31 // Spoiling, Jarred Thompson 32 // Telegram, Aimee-Claire Smith 33 // Ukumka kwakho, Thandokazi Mayo 34 // Incoko, Thandokazi Mayo 35 // The Witchdoctor, Mike Paterson-Jones 36 // this life, Garth Mason 37 // this small garden, Garth Mason 38 // Turtle, Candy Neubert 39 // Wednesday, Erica Livingstone 40 // Pre-Raphaelite Ronelda S. Kamfer 42 // Kore-eda, Ronelda S. Kamfer 43 // Katrientjie, Ashwin Arendse 44

PROSE

Pitt’s Stop, Dan Wylie 50 // Akonta Sekan, Priscilla Adipa 63 // Tea, Sometime in August, Sacha Daitz 74 // Boy, Ntando Taro Nzuza 83 // Visit, David Medalie 90

ARTWORK

Imile Wepener – Ocean Man 21 // Leopard’s Leap 46-47 // Together, at home 101 //Rebirth 106