Issue 5, Fall 2025

Karen DeGroot Carter

What Helps

J Kramer Hare

Night Music

Dustin Brookshire & Kerry Trautman

Rising Water Villanelle

Lana Hechtman Ayers

Gratitude for What Is Seen & Unseen

Meredith Chester

* Layers

Jeannie Roberts

Oak, Your Quiet Strength

Jeannie Roberts

*The Shape of a Leaf

Andrea Marcusa

The Last Pair of High Heels

Eirene Gentle

What was it

J Kramer Hare

Torchlight

Elinor Ann Walker

How Lost Words Haunt Like Wings Behind Glass

Bob McAfee

Poetry

Wendy Wisner

Metaphors

Danielle Zaccagnino

My Baby Fights Sleep the Way My Father Fights Death

Mary Catherine Harper

*Memoir Map 17

Hugh Findlay

Two Haiku

Carole Greenfield

Dragons That Fly

Carole Greenfield

*Black Doves & Fairy Wrens

Jacob Butlett

Boyfriend

Rebecca D. Martin

Limn the Place

A.C. Cambers

What the Birds Know

Justin Kolber

*I Swear to Tell the Truth

Kirk Lawson

Making the call

Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice

*Back-to-School Pep Rally

Kindra McDonald

*Fort Story True Story

Vidya Premkumar

at therapy intake / amid

David McVey

*Daniel McKelvie

Susanna Lang

Unprepared

Jeannie Prinsen

*Seasons in the Sun

Wayne David Hubbard

Afterword

*Web exclusive