Reckoning 5

<p>Tending tiny miracles until they split the pavement.</p><p>The present is clay sitting cool and wet in the palm of your hand. Squash it twist it mold it. Shape it into something beautiful.</p><p>Reckoning 5 edited by Leah Bobet and C��cile Cristofari concentrates on acknowledging the wonder of our environment as it is right now.</p><p>Featuring poetry essays fiction and art by Hana Amani C��cile Cristofari Leah Bobet Julia DaSilva Marlon Hacla Kristine Ong Muslim Anthony Pearce Angela Penrose Christy Jones Priya Chand Maya Chhabra Danielle Jorgenson Murray Catherine Rockwood Eileen Gunnell Lee Liv Kane S.L. Harris Riley Tao Remi Skytterstad Ashley Bao Corey Farrenkopf Jennifer Mace Sandy Parsons D. Dina Friedman Steve Rasnic Tem Oyedotun Damilola Muees Joseph Hope Justine Teu Tracy Whiteside Rae Kocatka Jennifer Mace and Karen Heuler.</p><p>Print release: July 2021</p><p> ISBN: 978-1-955360-00-5</p><p> Trade paper perfect-bound. 238 pages; 60000 words.</p><p><br></p><h2>Contents</h2><p><em>Art</em></p><p>Cover: Reckoning 5 - Hana Amani</p><p>Too Hot to Handle - Tracy Whiteside</p><p><em>Nonfiction</em></p><p>From the Editors - C��cile Cristofari</p><p>From the Editors: a scribbled note in a water-damaged notebook - Leah Bobet </p><p>No More Creepy Crawlies - Anthony Pearce </p><p>On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats - Priya Chand </p><p>Facing Medusas - Liv Kane </p><p><em>Poetry</em></p><p>Salvage Song - Julia DaSilva</p><p>Mula sa Melismas - Marlon Hacla</p><p>From Melismas - Marlon Hacla translated by Kristine Ong Muslim </p><p>you said 'they're making the ground soft' - Christy Jones</p><p>Owl Prowl - Maya Chhabra</p><p>From the Embassy of Leaks to the Court of Cracks - Catherine Rockwood </p><p>when the coral copies our fashion advice - Ashley Bao </p><p>photolinguistics - Jennifer Mace</p><p>We Have So Little Time Left - D Dina Friedman </p><p>Voice of God - Joseph Hope</p><p>letters from the ides - Jennifer Mace </p><p><em>Fiction</em></p><p>The Wild Inside - Angela Penrose</p><p>Riverine - Danielle Jorgenson Murray </p><p>You Cannot Return to the Burning Glade - Eileen Gunnell Lee </p><p>Ash and Scar - S.L. Harris </p><p>Gingko Biloba - William Tao </p><p>A Song Born - Remi Skytterstad</p><p>Wash'ashore Plastics Museum - Corey Farrenkopf </p><p>The Talking Bears of Greikengkul - Sandy Parsons </p><p>Mummies - Steve Rasnic Tem </p><p>All We Have Left Is Ourselves - Oyedotun Damilola Muees </p><p>SPF - Justine Teu </p><p>After Me A Flood - Rae Kocatka</p><p>The Restoration - Karen Heuler</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>