In Issue Twenty-Six, we see a too-familiar tension: on one side, a known and knowing loss, and on the other, a desire for pleasure, for consumption. Donna Glee Williams's "These Days" opens: "Loving the world / is like loving someone in hospice / immeasurably dear to you." But Daniel Edward Moore's "Glory and Back" reminds us that "the ground is loved / by fallen things," and in our conclusion, Jennifer Jordan's "Airport Song" celebrates "the exhilaration of / sleek jets dropping through twilight." In this issue, you'll find work by Ed Ahern, Tom Barlow, V.A. Bettencourt, Becky Boling, John Brantingham, Ervin Brown, Melinda Coppola, Jess Gersony, D.E. Greene, Rob Hardy, Brooke Hoppstock-Mattson, M.J. Iuppa, Karen Luke Jackson, DB Jonas, Jennifer Jordan, Alex Kraft, Sister Lou Ella, D.S. Maolalai, Daniel Edward Moore, Marion, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Richard Rubin, Alice Teeter, Jeffrey Thompson, and Donna Glee Williams. The issue's cover is by Roger Camp.