Homing

[ˈhoʊ mɪŋ]

  • The ability of some animals to find their way home, especially over a great distance.

  • The artist’s instinct to return.

The Waiting Room

A Letter From the Editors

“Sister to Icarus / when all I want is to go home. Not wings but / the hubris of my body. How it dares to cut / a path through space.”

Danielle DeTiberus

Painting of a boy in a white shirt pointing a gun at a red object, with a pink and purple background and vertical wooden panels.

Ava Dawson

“Time churns, scours, replaces. I realize this is not a new story I’m telling here.”

Seth Sawyers

“Right there in the path between the plane and the airport door, she broke down crying. Like a bird, she folded inward, her arms shielding her heart. That was the start.”

Vanessa Garcia

Colorful quilt depicting three pink cutout figures, clouds, and a rainbow, with waves at the bottom, possibly representing a beach scene.

Manola Silva-Hanson

“but there are no tenses in Mandarin, only / a past defined as completion, a future defined as completion of want.”

Fiona Jin

Fossilized dinosaur bones and skull embedded in sedimentary rock.

Fiona Mackay

“When I travel to the Philippines, I am not a typical tourist. I am homecoming.”

Grace Talusan

A monochrome sketch of a dense tree with numerous branches and clusters of round fruits or flowers.

Lydia Hiorns

“If the picture was painted, it couldn’t have gone any other way. If lightning strikes, it’s because it was always going to.”

Audie Waller

A painting of a woman with short black hair sitting at a table, surrounded by abstract shapes and lines, with warm interior lighting in the background.

Matthew Yu

“Hunched in a forest of pines, repainted, old, everything funhouse-mirror-different.”

Sean Scapellato