Introduction Editor''s Notes Dorothy Allison Roberts Gas & Dairy Careful Butter Domestic Life Lisa Alther Swan Song Maggie Anderson Anything You Want, You Got It Biography Cleaning the Guns In Real Life My Father and Ezra Pound Nickole Brown My Book, in Birds To My Grandmother''s Ghost, An Invitation for My Grandmother Ten Questions You''re Afraid to Ask, Answered Jonathan Corcoran The Rope Swing Doris Diosa Davenport verb my noun: a poem cycle After the Villagers Go Home: An Allegory Halloween 2011 Halloween 2017 for Cheryl D my first lover, 41 years later Three days after the 2017 Solar Eclipse Sept. 1 Invocation a conversation with an old friend Upon realizing "The Black Atlantic" Victor Depta The Desmodontidae Silas House How To Be Beautiful Fenton Johnson Bad Habits Charles Lloyd Wonders Jeff Mann Not for Long Training the Enemy Yellow-eye Beans The Gay Redneck Devours Draper Mercantile Three Crosses Homecoming Mesha Maren Among Kelly McQuain Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers Brave Vampirella Monkey Orchid Alien Boy Mercy Ritual Rahul Mehta A Better Life Ann Pancake Ricochet Carter Sickels Saving Savannah Sipple WWJD / about love WWJD / about letting go Jesus and I Went to the Wal-Mart Catfisting Pork Belly A List of Times I Thought I Was Gay Jesus Signs Me Up For a Dating App Anita Skeen Double Valentine How Bodies Fit Need Something You Should Know The Clover Tree The Quilt: 25 April 1993 While You Sleep Aaron Smith Blanket There''s still one story Twice Julia Watts Handling Dynamite Selected Bibliography of Same-Sex Desire in Appalachian Literature.