VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, FALL 2022
Content
In My Right Mind
HEIKKI HUOTARI
Hondeydew, Don’tcha Know You Cantaloupe with The Melon Man
GERARD SARNAT
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ALEX BASTANTIANINI
Tomorrow Could Be a Sonnet
VALERIE SOPHER
My Mother’s Strainer
DIANA RAAB
A Parting is Still a Part & Whereabouts Unknown
ELI COYLE
Roaring Twenties
OLIVIA THORNE
Incident in the Tunnel
KATE STANNER-MAXWELL
Fall Back to the Foxholes of Nothingness
JAMES BRADLEY
My Scheme
Ben Nardolilli
Deliriums & Please
MARY McCARTHY
Run Rabbit
NATHANIEL CHEW
Treatment Plan
JADE WOOTTON
Out of Control
SELENA COTTE
No, or Reflections on California After an Absence of Years
LEX KOSIERADZKI
Commute
ANNA LAURA FALVEY
Warm Drives
QUIN WILLETS
Portrait in Blue
V.A. BETTENCOURT
Comatose
M. BLAIN-HARTUNG
No daisy, no grass
LUCIE CULERRIER
The Good It
BRYANA LORENZO
The Old Mansion
ANITA RONCHINI
Courage Anniversary & RE:BIRTH
ANITA BASU
Don’t Throw The Nuclear Football & Free Store
JIM ROSS
Babel
ANU POHANI
CroXXroads
DIA VANGUTEN
Anxious, Can’t Sleep
ALLYSON RIDDLE
This Body is Mine
PAVEL PARAMONOV
The House on Cedar Drive
ELIZABETH JAEGAR
Wall Street’s Dirty Secret: The Greatest Invention of Capitalism
CAILEAN SHELLEY
The Gorge & Epoch & Marker & Gyre
DENNIS JONES
Choice & Odesa
CHRISTIAN PIETRAPIANA
Monoliths #28 & Monoliths #33 & Monoliths #49
MARKS GENS
Glitch
FABIO SASSI
Prehistoric Scenery
DAN GONEN
Order of Chaos
LORE SKOULATOS
Masthead
Senior Editors
Michael Savio, Fiction
Alessandra Abate, Nonfiction
Harry Huang, Poetry
Lore Skoulatos, Poetry
Hazel Ma, Art
Noel Dempsey, Social Media
Rachel Rosado, Web
Fiction Editors
Mina Abida
Allyson Riddle
Emily Kluin
Nonfiction Editors
Joanna Jeya
Hijab Ahmed
Rowan Toke
Edwin Brun
Nicky Kashani
Sai Panguluri
Poetry Editors
Jagriti Sharma
Daniel Merritt
Art Editors
Sylvia Juliana Riveros Tores
Noel Dempsey
Nikki Humble
Art Editors
Noel Dempsey
Sylvia Juliana Riveros Torres
Our publication is thankful to JJ Jacquet and Nicole Pandolfo, we could not have done this without you.
Caustic Frolic is a peer-edited graduate student-run journal founded by New York University’s Center for Experimental Humanities and supported by a GSAS Student Life grant.