by Trinity Herr | Apr 24, 2026 | Poetry
POETRY BY Michael Wynn Autumn at the Beach On the horizon brown pelicans glide inches above the rise and fall of glassy swells. Ten thousand waves ago we walked here. You wore a red jacket. We held hands. We were young and talked about death and travel....
by Trinity Herr | Jan 10, 2026 | Poetry
POETRY BY Carlos Reyes Mere Shelters —Upper Kalskag, Alaska 1988 Like the first shack I lived inwhen coming West this log cabin in the far northdesigned by Russian priests has no plumbing no central heat.A single bulb hangs over us, brings light on shortest days.Its...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 10, 2026 | Poetry
Whalefall by Pepper Trail Whalefall From the higher darkness above (for there is no darkness but darkness the higher and the lower and then here, the soft silt, the end) it stirs the world long before its coming slow soundless thunderous in its arrival invisible...
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...