by James Owens The day comes, perhaps in your fiftieth year,when you know the rest of it is a letting go.Parents will die and soon. Children, grownlong and angular, will…
The Heart and What We Mean by It
by Jody Collins Securely tabled, the bodyawaits a scalpel ready tomove in. Sure-handed surgeon,knowing aorta versus vein,cavity vis-à-vis chamber,approaches life-savinginfinitesimally. He leaves the stories just below,housed within the heart’s memoryas…
Wilderness State Park Epistle
by Ken Meisel Because the winterberry’s knuckles have glowing red berries on them,& also small corsages of green leaves pinned like wings to fingers, & the gnarled shore oaks shiver…
In The Presence Of So Much Water, Hagar Tries To Remember Thirst
by Rebekah Denison Hewitt Genesis 21:19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the…
The Places We Inhabit
By Yvonne Nguyen i.Wild grass grows golden, tall enough thatI cannot find my own feet in front of me.Sometimes I lay down,invisible in the dead forest of my own front…
A Sacred Harmony
by Peter Grandbois Here is the sunrise witheringall we desire with unearned grace Here is our first mistake throbbingwith intimations of happily ever after And here, every note fingeredfrom the…
Implicit Bias in the Wilds of Allen County
by Jeff Gundy Only a few of us ever need to whistle Vivaldi to reassurethe nervous suburbanites. Some of us answer “tired old prof” when asked our true identity, or…
Deer; Twilight
by Nick Conrad Crops of plenty gone in an instant, the combine’s quick harvest leaving enough still for days of grazing, snout close to earth, lips, teeth seizing the shattered…