Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville   no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings   I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
Poems by Lauren K. Watel

Poems by Lauren K. Watel

Art: Winter Sky On A Shallow by Léni Paquet-Morante       Because the Sign Was Missing   Because the sign was missing, we missed the turn and had to turn back, back to a narrow dirtroad veering blindly into thickset woods, and as we went, plunging...
Under the Bridge to Harstine Island by Marc Janssen

Under the Bridge to Harstine Island by Marc Janssen

Transitory Space, Circle Rock, Nova Scotia, Canada by Leah Oates Under The Bridge to Harstine Island   Under the skin There is soil The green gray landscape crowded together as we sat under the bridge to Harstine Island, our poles straight and lines out. The...
Poems by Katherine Hoerth

Poems by Katherine Hoerth

Art: Pink Leaf 2 by John Gregory Brown   Hope like Wildflowers   I count my hope like wildflowers on my patio in Baytown, where I believe the wilderness is coming back in riotous flashes of color against the sky’s hue of haze—the beebalm’s pink, a smile in a...
In the Beginning by t.m. thomson

In the Beginning by t.m. thomson

Art: 18z by Lauren Campbell       In the Beginning                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...
The Singing River by Alzo David-West

The Singing River by Alzo David-West

Art: Low Ice Abbott Marshland by Leni Paquet-Morante       The Singing River After John Waller (1878)   summer—by the river:the singing river, down the streambeneath droopingwillow’s shade, moaning,murmuring watersdark and chill, the...