MiddleLost 3, Winter 2023

Table of Contents & Picture Credits

Editor’s Note: Middlelost

1

Darks and Light 

7

Maged Zahler, Illness and Reality

9

Kristen Case, On Certainty 

21

Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., from After the Operation

45

Dale Smith, Carmen Perpetuum

53

Sarah Menafee, Untitled Sequence 

59

Jenny Zervakis, Reaching towards the source of light: office plants

69

The Girls  

75

Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., from Tarot

77

Mary Yordy, Untitled

82

Geneviève Machöel, Tendresses 

85

Elizabeth Corliss, Outward Forms

95

An Loc  

105

Mary Jane Gore, Echidna

111

Kimberly Lyons, Five Poems 

119

Catherine Rush, Portals 

125

The Boys  

137

Mark Scroggins, Two sections from Zion Offramp

139

Albert Mobilio, Guide for the Discouraged  (more of) 

149

Sam Need, Flatbush

161

Dale Smith, Four Poems

168

Cory Massaro, Two Poems 

174

Andrew Mossin, First Orphic Hymn

179

Stephen Sartarelli, Ontologies II 

189

Joseph Donahue, The Palace of Boundless Cold I

207

On Reading and Writing

219

Introduction

221

Kristen Case, In the Cave

222

Andrew Mossin, A Story That Cannot Be Told   

233

David Need, Being Creatures in Language

250

Contributors Notes & Acknowledgments

269