Underneath this issue's backwardly festive cover, by means of which the infamously Christmas-loathing Tyler C. Gore invites you to "Have a Very Clammy Christmas," please unearth yet more startling ravings by our loony yet functional Executive Editor Guillermo Stitch, more quintagrams by Richard Kostelanetz, a cartoon by Jesse Hilson, much jubilant metaclamation by inveterate metaclamatologist Christopher Boucher, Paolo Pergola's astronomical inquisition of the Magi, Melissa McCarthy's enthusiastically close reading of Zinedine Zidane, twelve scents by Tomoé Hill, Jack Foley on Michael McClure, Kurt Luchs on Borges, Marvin Cohen's poetry on the death of his wife, a deep dive by Niamh Mac Cabe, a cannibalistic jingle by Alvin Krinst, art by Róisín Ní Neachtain, and additional wonders by Jesi Bender, PJ Blumenthal, Kevin Boniface, Oisín Breen, Megan Catana, Ann Cefola, Vincent Czyz, Debra Di Blasi, Dave Drayton, Daniel Felsenthal, Jake Goldsmith, Henrietta Goodman, Charles Holdefer, Nick Holdstock, Glenn Ingersoll, Akshat Khare, Kent Kosack, David Kuhnlein, Ben Libman, DS Maolalai, Jim Meirose, M.J. Nicholls, REYoung, David Ricchuite, Hélène Sanguinetti, Mike Silverton, and Thomas Walton.