gathering
Materialized by Amanda Yskamp on Thursday, July 17th 2025.
Amanda Yskamp’s work has appeared in such magazines as Threepenny Review, Hayden Review, caketrain, Redivider, and The Georgia Review. Poetry editor and cover artist for Wordrunner eChapbooks, she lives on the 10-year flood plain of the Russian River and teaches writing from her online schoolhouse.
Other stars in the Retrograde asterism:
They Buried Their Dead in Sitting Posture
Eli Dowd
The clouds are sparse, and trees shift almost imperceptibly beneath their foliage as if to reject the advances of a late noon breeze. Everything is yellow. A vulture mutes atop a tree.
Sometimes You Can’t Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose
Carter Lappin
Flames lick his arms and legs like an over-enthusiastic puppy. He’s broken the fire alarm with a broom—
Annual Review
Shana Ross
You could have put in an escalator. Or better yet, you could have invented an elevator. That would have been Exceptional.
Sorrow for Youth
Guan Un
There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.