AGNI 84
Contents
Editor's Note
Drowning
Essays
women’s business here
A Letter to My Daughter about Palindromes
Little Face
By Anna Journey
Mother’s Tears
On the Undiscovered Origins of Everything in Waxahachie, Texas
Buried Treasure
Fiction
King, Bishop, Queen
By Elvis Bego
Four by Kline Caro
By Tamas Dobozy
The Sacrifice
Where I Was When My Older Brother Died
The End of the Line
By David Macey
Emergency Instructions: If an Anaconda Bites Your Hand
By David Macey
Hypothetical Love Letter Composed on the Occasion of My Twentieth Wedding Anniversary
By Jamie Quatro
Toby
By Elske Rahill
from Le Secret: The Secret Agent’s Story
Translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer
Poetry
Among Us
By Amy Beeder
from Watering the Plant of Dreaming
Translated from the Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Eye
By Bruce Bond
Telescope
Kid Happens
from Yss of Li
The Museum: Ashtray
By Dara Elerath
The Museum: Woman with Apple
By Dara Elerath
Stumbling on Clair de Lune
Measure for Measure
By John Hodgen
Wittgenstein
Blackbirds and Blake’s Illustrations to Dante’s Purgatory, Canto 1
Imagining Marriage, #52
By Laura Kolbe
Officer Crowley
Top Hat, 1935
The Angels
By Steve Kronen
Maker of Bowls
By Steve Kronen
The Horses of Achilles
By Steve Kronen
The Road to Santa Clara
The Four Auricles
By David Naimon
The Summer Peepers Couldn’t Be the Sources of Their Chorus
The Fall
By Jordan Smith
from Lullabies for the Dead
Little Harmonic Labyrinth
An Apparatus for Receiving or Transmitting
Conversazione
from Orbit
Electric, eclectic—an art portfolio by Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz frames up intimations of danger for an issue international across all three genres. Marilyn Hacker’s versions of Syria poet Golan Haji go side by side with new poems by Cynthia Zarin, John Kinsella, Dara Elerath, Chad Parmenter, and many others. In fiction, Jamie Quatro imagines lovers not taken, Tamas Dobozy proposes a hair-raising retrospective of a scandalous filmmaker’s career, and Elske Rahill gives us a woman whose urge to protect her daughter goes perilously far. Essays by Kim Adrian, Shahnaz Habib, Michael Sheehan, Radhiyah Ayobami, and others explore the legacies of trauma and the uncanny resourcefulness of the survival instinct.