by Trinity Herr | Nov 10, 2025 | Poetry
POETRY BY Paulann Petersen This Tree There’s the Pinewho remains silentamid great provocation,and the Firwho murmurs and creaks when all else is still. There’s the Poplarwho wants nothing morethan everything I have,unlike that Birch who never wants anything to do...
by Elsa Hjalmarsson Lyons | Aug 17, 2025 | Poetry
Poem Wild Geometry by Elsa Hjalmarsson Lyons Photo by Clay LeConey Wild Geometry Beyond the grid of the windowa crow flies, tracing question markswithout stems– curious half-circles.The grid disappears. All I seeis the crow’s wild geometry, never resolvedinto shapes....
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 9, 2025 | Poetry
Curiosity Killed the Cat by Kaz Hatch Curiosity the Cat Killed Not the early fall’s field mice,snitching through tallow grass tall and crisping, Not a sparrow or a swallow or a red-striped snake,unwound and left limp on the doorstep, No grasshopper that zipped into...
by David Hargreaves | Mar 26, 2025 | Poetry
The Whimbrel’s Bill by David Hargreaves Photo by David Hargreaves The Whimbrel’s Bill Dune slogging, each step floundersas if drunk—the earth once seemedsuch a sure thing beneath my feet. Hiking the sand road to the ocean at dawn, here, the North Spit, eons agowas...
by Joe Wilkins | Feb 16, 2025 | Poetry
Certainty is Another Word for Despair by Joe Wilkins Illustration by Gregory Poulin Certainty is Another Word for Despair The boys have dividedthemselves onto opposite halves of the ridge. The pinescontinue dying of beetle infestation,the whole southern sky heaves...
by Scott T. Starbuck | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Beached Whale by Scott T. Starbuck Illustration by Zyanya Cittalli Beached Whale wasn’t dead but sheriff feltbeyond savingso I sat near her eyeuntil life-light faded. Whale came backin my dreamslike stirred embersof driftwood fire. Dream-whale swaminto my dying...