issue nine

summer 2024

In Gratitude

Dwaine Rieves

For his steadfast support over the years

 

Poetry

 

Another

by Sean Sexton

If You Saw Me

by Sharada Vishwanath

Eau de Cheval

by Isabella Boyd

 

Consider the Day

by Matt Thomas

A Sense of Being

by Maudie Bryant

The Hours That Rooted Me

by Courtney Justus

Monarchs

by Gregory Lobas

Bush Un-Rosed

by Maggie Rue Hess

 

If All Goes Well

by Molly O'Dell

Bees

by Matt Thomas

Our Fireflies

by Ronnie Sirmans

Jar of Eyes

by Ed Brickell

Ghost of a Peacock

by Harrison Hamm

Ornament

by Christina Linsin

 

The Honey Locust

by Ronnie Sirmans

Below the Bough

by Sam Barbee

Psalm of a secular human

by Skinner Matthews

The Model House

by Joanna Grant

Marion

by Josh Gaydos

 

Spring

by Sean Sexton

 
 

Punctuation, Accent, Marks

by Laura Cesarco Eglin

 

Fiction

 

The Owl Feather

by D Bedell

Nonfiction

 

Passing Time

by Deborah-Zenha Adams

Going Back to Miami

by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

About the Photographer

 
 
 

Sean Sexton was born in Indian River County and grew up on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch.  He divides his time between managing a 700-acre cattle operation, painting, and writing. He is author of two chapbooks, and three full volumes of poetry: Blood Writing, Poems, Anhinga Press, 2009,  and May Darkness Restore, Poems, Press 53, 2019, and Portals, Poems, Press 53, 2023. He performs regularly at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, and is on the faculty of the 2024 Southeastern Writers Assn. Conference on St. Simon's Island, GA in June . He was nominated for a 2020 and 2021 Pushcart Prize and received a FL Individual Artist’s Fellowship in 2001. He's a board member of the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation and founding event chair of their Annual Poetry and Barbeque held each April, now in its fifteenth year. He also co-founded Poetry and Organ Advent and Lenten Concert Series at Community Church in Vero Beach, FL featuring nine concerts annually attracting poets from all over the US. He became inaugural Poet Laureate of Indian River County in 2016. Sean is also a visual artist who draws, paints, and has kept sketch and writing journals for more than fifty years. Recently he began to add photography to his ongoing discourse with the beloved landscape of his upbringing.

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