This issue explores death and dying in its ordinary, human, and sacred forms. It also summons readers to the communal work of mourning as a form of resistance and liberation.

• Where Death Lives
  Frank Scoffield Nellessen 10
• Another American Nightmare
  Renée Cherez 12
• This Here is a Murder Culture
  Molly Leebove 15
• And Now, This Body
  Kerr Mesner 16
• Community Acts of Remembering and Resistance
  Susie Henderson 19
• When Worlds Die
  Austin Tillett 21
• Courage to Engage with Death
  Christiana Peterson 22
• Golden Grasses and Sun-Bleached Bones
  Kristin Hugo 25
• A Curriculum of Backyard Funerals
  Lydia Wylie-Kellermann 27
• To the Soil We Shall Return
  lucy dean stockton 30
• Flesh, Fur, and Shell
  Will O’Brien 33
• File your Paperwork!
  Ambrose Mary Gallagher 35
• The Grave for a Ginger Cat
  Rosalind C. Hughes 38
• Making Final Arrangements for Yourself
  Mark Shatz 39
• When the Unthinkable Happens: A Litany for When We Gather and Weep
  Angela Denker 41
• The Empty Tomb: Stolen or Resurrected?
  Eileen Gbagbo 42
• Vigilance
  Mx Chris Paige 45
• Grieving the Body You’re In
  Hannah Foulger 48
• Little Death
  Kateri Boucher 49
• Of Corpses, Land, and Responsibilities Amid Uncertainty
  by Adrian M. Downey 51
• We are Embodied Ancestors
  Owólabi 54
• Regulars
• Masthead 6
• Letters 6
• Editorial 8
• Upcoming Issues 58
• Poetry
• To Get There
  Ric Hudgens 26
• Billie in West Philly
  Yvonne 34
• Sagittal Suture
  Montserrat Luna 44
• Sections
• Elderword
  Bill Wylie-Kellermann 9
• The White Men’s Column
  Ric Hudgens 49
• Film Review 37
• Book Review 50
• Further Reading 56
• Notes from Northern Turtle Island 59
• Civil Disobedience 60
• Feministry 61
• Christian Peacemaker Teams 62
• Web Exclusive
• Healing, Reverence, Justice
  Owólabi/Will See