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 Ava Dawson “Time churns, scours, replaces. I realize this is not a new story I’m telling here.” Seth Sawyers Lydia Hiorns “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 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 Fiona Mackay “When I travel to the Philippines, I am not a typical tourist. I am homecoming.” Grace Talusan 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 Matthew Yu “Hunched in a forest of pines, repainted, old, everything funhouse-mirror-different.” Sean Scapellato
