Winter 2022 Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BigCityLit Sunday Times by Nicholas Johnson Poetry THE GRAPH OF YOU Jim Tilley hannah George Perreault I could find the name of a good therapist, or alternatively, Heather Dubrow Ode to the Turtle Kim Farrar ………And Then There Was X Ilka Scobie PERFECTLY CAUGHT Kenneth Pobo Covid OCD Jacqueline Jules Consumption Colette Parris 10 Poems You Won’t Survive . . . . . . and 10 You Just Might Jim Bohen Sounding Box: a ghazal Jordi Alonso Sonnet (Subtext) IV Jordi Alonso A DRINK TO END THE WORLD R.T. Castleberry Too Soon Gone Elisabeth Frischauf Dinner At Danny’s Robert Halleck My Mother Remembers Me When I Put a Record On Joseph Mills White Father, Black Son Joseph Mills Shock-White Sarah Sarai Dust We Are, Dust We Become Jacob Butlett Changing the Baby David P. Miller One Reason for the French Revolution Brad Rose show and tell John Franklin Dandridge Denial Carol Alexander New Orleans—New York Carol Alexander Elegy for Father and Son David B. Prather Dreaming for Beginners Guillermo Filice Castro Reason’s Retreat Equals An Unsolved Equation Kristie L. Williams Lipstick Forensics Marjorie Maddox Absence Chelsea Fanning Father’s Day at the MoMA, 2021 Madeleine Beckman Team Ally Ian Macks The National Fucked Up League Ian Macks Subliminal Body Jewelry is the New Leader Juliet Cook j/j hastain Westward Geer Austin Fiction Il Vecchio Camino Foster Trecost From SUGARING OFF Margaret Guilbert June in Winter Brook Bhagat Honey Mark L Anderson The Remake Robert Garner McBrearty Blue Roses and Diane Andrew Sarewitz Parentheticals II Tim Tomlinson Nonfiction Off Track: Or, What I Did with $100 Guinotte Wise Moose Hunt Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt Querencia: A Little Macho Bullshit in Two Acts Mark Blickley Brooklyn Charlotte Russe Michelle Cacho-Negrete The Flamenco Dancer Robert Pope