issue one
summer 2021
Poetry
In France, the Charolais Never Listen
by Dwaine Rieves
The Quiet
by Jordan Sanderson
Spring Fire
by Makenna Dykstra
In the Week Before We Leave for the Clinic
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Excerpt from Springbook
by Gabriel Antonio Reed
omens
by Tyler Lowery
Is There Any Pain? This Question
by Jennifer Sutherland
Swamp Thing Gives Longfellow his Due About a Couple of Things
by Jack B. Bedell
Everybody dies and one day I will
by Gale Acuff
Strawberry Moon
by Jordan Sanderson
Not an Ars Poetica, Not an Aubade, But
by Jennifer Sutherland
Summer at the Wetlands
by Monica Colón
A Song for the Doe-Thief
by Bill King
What the deer remembers
by Elizabeth Garcia
A Play in Three Acts
by Eugene Stevenson
About the Photographer
Kiko Salazar (he/him) is a native of Augusta, GA and now living in Greenville, SC, and has been involved in wedding and engagement photography for a number of years. On his own time, however, he enjoys hiking the upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina, and cultivating his craft with landscape and travel photography. You can see more of his work on his Instagram page @kiko_sal.