Crazyhorse Number 75

 
Issue Number 69

Fiction
Michael P. Kardos  Mediation  “He had presented a choice, but there had been no decision to make.” Stacy M. Tintocalis  The Tiki King  Dad has figured it out: “Burbank isn’t even Apple-Pie America anymore.”

Essay
Joelle Fraser  Inspiration Point  and the prison town of Susanville—“This is what she told me: the boys had been quiet all day.”

Poetry
“Start whispering, / someone whispers. It’s all we have.” — John Gallaher  Ray Amorosi  Teresa Pfeifer  Norman Dubie  Catie Rosemurgy  Ernest Farrés translated by Lawrence Venuti  Hailey Leithauser  Theodore Worozbyt  Maxine Scates  Dean Young  Suzanne Buffam  All this and more.
Cover art by Ross Bleckner
  

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On the Cover
 Cover art by Ross Bleckner. Courtesy of the artist.
Fiction
Leslee Becker
 The Little Gentleman
Jennine Capó Crucet
 Relapsing, Remitting
Michael P. Kardos
 Mediation
April Ayers Lawson
 The Way You Must Play Always
Stacy M. Tintocalis
 The Tiki King
Essay
Joelle Fraser
 Inspiration Point
Poetry
Ray Amorosi
 In Fear of Leaving My Body
Letter From Marcus Aurelius
Simeon Berry
 &3
Suzanne Buffam
 The Solitary Angler
Enough
If You See It What Is It You See
Colin Cheney
 Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds
Norman Dubie
 Again the Twentieth Century Realism
The Magnesia Caesar
Ernest Farrés
 Edward Hopper:  Girlie Show, 1941
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
   Edward Hopper:  New York Office, 1962
John Gallaher
 Anniversaries of Bad Things
The House Rhapsody
Alen Hamza
 The Old Bridge in Mostar
In a Photograph Your Hands Melt
Hailey Leithauser
 The Conclusion of History
Eurydice
Teresa Pfeifer
 So To Speak:  My Vowels Obey A Certain Way
Matryoshka
Catie Rosemurgy
 Neighbor:  Miss Peach’s Body Didn’t Turn Out Right
Doctor (2):  Miss Peach Seeks Treatment at the Rural Health Care Walk-in Clinic
Maxine Scates
 The Future
As We Were Talking
Philip Schultz
 Attention
The Reasonable Houses of Osborne Lane
Aleš Šteger
 Saliva
Translated by Brian Henry
   Tapeworm
G. C. Waldrep
 The Audience
Theodore Worozbyt
 Honey, Honey
Dean Young
 The Fox
53-Year-Old Pinata
The Euphoria of Peoria