Distant

VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1, FALL 2023

 Content

Duality, Extended, Fatigue, and Raw
KALEIGH DANDENAU

Frst Flight
MILO BROWN

Lubetkin
AUSTIN LUBETKIN

The Way
JIM ROSS

Wildcats
JOE FISCHER

Bathroom684157
LUCIE CULERRIER

Carrion
FIONA HABORAK

Here
PAT DUTT

Knowing John Pat
DUNCAN TIERNEY

Mammillaria spinosissima
EMILY FONTENOT

& Patricidal Green Onion
CLARI (MARS) GAO

Some Place Without Washrooms
ALFREDO SALVATORE ARCILESI

The Fin of a Bird
ALYSA LEVI-D’ANCONA

The Fortune Teller
SARAH ARCHER

Dear Darling Daddy Issues
EL CARLISLE

Educational Shelters
BOYD PEREZ

Lost in Time
EDWIN BRUN

Pilgrimage to Distant Places
JIM ROSS

You Are Marvelous: a pseudo-surrealist meditation
ILANA CRUGER-ZAKEN

After a Very Boring Date
GB

Baeing of Hounds
SETH BROWN

DI DOVE SEI? DOVE VAI?
STEFANO BELLIN

Doris Day Was My Hero & RE:BIRTH
MARY ELLEN TALLEY

Ekphrasis from Dry Land & Free Store
LEOPOLDO ZAMPICCOLI

Heisenberg
JODI BOSIN

iii
AIDA BARDISSI

life cycles
JESS ROSES

lovely morning
GRIFFIN ELLIOT

Molecule
LAURA ZAINO

nighthawk
RC deWINTER

Parable of the Constellations
MERRIDAWN DUCKLER

Pere Lachaise
GRIFFIN ELLIOT

The CFO
RICH RENNER

Wild Dogs Know My Name
DONNA J. GELAGOTIS LEE

You’ll Find Your Way Back to the Pacific
MOCTEZUMA VAILAHI

Masthead

Senior Editors

Michael Savio, Fiction

Lauren Holmes, Nonfiction

Dan Merritt, Poetry

Hazel Ma, Art

Umrat Khan, Social Media

Rachel Rosado, Web

Fiction Editors

Adèle Wester

Emily Kluin

We would like to thank our staff of talented writers and editors, as well as our faculty advisor, Emma Heaney, for all of their time, generosity, and expertise this spring. We could not have achieved this issue’s publication without the support of our team.