Once again, we relish and appreciate the fine work offered here in Issue 29. This issue includes a few Covid-era pieces – even now as the diseases resurfaces locally. There’s some fine nostalgia, lovely pastorals, pieces about war and strife, and more. We reflect our times. So does our art. Wishing everyone a safe and sound 2025 and beyond. Thanks as always to our submitters, contributors, readers, and benefactors. 

Love, Andrea, Clara, and Jeff, Editors

Pray for Ukraine.

 

Contents
The 106  – by Donald Sellitti
Agnes’s Poem Was Called Calm – by L. Lois
All Those Flashing Lights – by Rick Adang
Anna & Her Daddy – by Michael Summerleigh
Blue Heron Fall – by Frank Babcock
The Daughter honors her Greek Orthodox Father – by Angela Costi
The Deaf’s Ma – by Pavle Radonić 
Downpours Didn’t Cause Alarm Before the Hurricane – by John Milkereit
Drawn to Beauty – by Mary Janicke
Driving the Peninsula – by Michael Mintrom
Ecce Flos – by Promise Agoyi
Eyes and Tears – by E.C. Traganas
Fault Lines – by Mary Anne Griffiths
Feud – by Paul Ilechko
The Five Stages of Grief as Seen from the Pandemic – by Thomas Allbaugh
The Floromancy of Identification – by Luanne Castle
Gymnasium #23, Lutsk, part 2 – by Glen Young
Hands Holding a Cutthroat Trout about to Be Released – by Ron Drummond
Happy, Stable Poets – by Christopher Heise
Hunger – by Vyarka Kozareva
Inanna in the Underworld – by Gabrielle Langley
Kansas Road Stop – by CJ Mathis
Lessons from the Moon – by Arvilla Fee
Marilyn – by Dale Purvis
No. 9 Hamstead Road – by Russel Dupont
Ode to Water – by Tobi Alfier
Quarantine – by Anne Anthony
Roman Polanski Wasn’t Built in a Day – by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Run for the Roses – by Rachael Ikins
See You Tomorrow – by DS Maolalai
Slights – by Sarah Ghoshal
Sober – by Troy Schoultz
Thirty Dollars – by David Sapp
throne – by John Boucher
Thrum – by Jenn Monroe
To Forget Why – by Edward Lee
Unseen Garden – by Mark A. Murphy
War Crimes – by Joseph Carrabis
Why I Can&’t Speak Cajun French – by Claire Helakoski
Your body wakes into its quiet rattle … – by Elya Braden