We are just visiting the world at this moment and it’s on fire. We find it dissolving into an orange fog, there is no volume around it, no beach, no reverie. Here is a text column of smoke reaching into the night as if the sky were sucking us up, this book is a red flag of mourning, a blue bruise. Poems are not marvels/They are war zones. Something attacked the earth last night, was it us? Whilst lying face down in bed, sensing variances of being, so suddenly ancient. We came together in a supermarket car park shouting about types of plastic types of plastic types of plastic. We climb a mountain to find a perfect blue square of sky among the clouds like a motion picture screen, like a blank page, we pull out a kidney and fling it across to see ourselves trailing behind it like shooting stars. From here everything feels like a road, every road an exit route. Leaving the earth is unnecessarily complicated but regret is the ultimate test of endurance. What is this thing? A new issue of FIELDNOTES, a return which is also the beginning of something.

Our sixth issue contains new writing and artwork from Anne Carson, Joe Clark, Elijah Jackson, Manuela De Laborde Noguez, Jonas Eika, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, Ocean Vuong, Vanessa Billy, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Emmerson, Kidist Amberber, Robert Beavers, Natasha Cox, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Chris Kraus, Emmett Lewis, Tava Tedesco, Flo Ray, Imane Boukaila, Chris Martin, Adam Wolfond and Rasha Abdulhadi.