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 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...
by Tor Strand | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Depot To Another Form of Existence by Tor Strand Photo by Annelie Turner Depot To Another Form of Existence When the cape trail ended and I couldn’t,I climbed from its edge— light formed oceanlike a story being read aloud— you lie in the crook of a lip-shaped treeand...
by Dzvinia Orlowsky | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Red by Dzvinia Orlowsky Red In 2020, I would have believedthe red bird anchoring itself on the lowestbranch of the slumping lilac bushin early March came to show me that bright beauty exists where you least expect it, that I still had time to see, fear-free, a...