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…
Thrift Shop Hymn
by Bethany Bowman I no longer listen to Christian radio; its choruses pop and sap, and bellowing, caviling voices of Southern evangelical pastors make me want to…
Old Growth
—Cudahy Woods, 2020 by Jacob Riyeff Sleet and stiff breeze cold about the ears,the children tramp along, rejoice in chilled mudstreaming down the path and pooling in booted puddles.Mayapple stands…
You Take What You Can
by Peter Grandbois What I am trying to say is that long ago I walked into a field. What I mean is that long ago I had a choice. Or…
Tell Me Everything
Tell me everything you know about the orange sky
Alms for the Soft Ringing of the Stream
A wooden footbridge reaches over
the stream where the available sunlight is
diffuse on the Touch-me-nots.
Visitation Rites
By Brian Phipps For Emily 1. Nativity On the Feast of the Birth of the Theotokos And didn’t her arrival change all things? So long they had been standing at…
Guardian Angel
by Matthew J. Andrews Mine is a manna-spirit, a holy beingwith an apron tied around its waist,who finds me when I am aimlessand gently places my hands in the muck,…
Capillaries
by Paul Ilechko Red-faced against tendernessthe blood rush the heat rushher as distance closingher as apparition as ghostly burningwhispering his name soft links corrupt with time the fire…