issue thirteen
winter 2025
special thanks to our guest poetry editor
Eliana Franklin
for her help with this issue
Poetry
Everything On A Line
by David Cazden
Morning Brine
by Karen Luke Jackson
Hatteras Elemental
by Gregory Lobas
Where I Drift
by Ann Chinnis
Drowned
by Betty Stanton
Late Afternoon, Low Tide
by Sharon Hoffmann
After the New Drug
by Maggie Rue Hess
A Final Visitation
by Barclay Ann Blankenship
Leaving
by Ann Chinnis
A Funny Kind of Grief
by Diane Melby
In A Gospel According to Hunters, /You Name Your Bird
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
To the Roach I Share a Bathroom with When Attending a Funeral
by Karen Luke Jackson
Evening Pastoral with Bobwhite
by Annette Sisson
Moon in My Bourbon
by Ed Brickell
Understory
by Noah Soltau
Three Six Five
by Emilee Wigglesworth
Luke 1:26-38
by Madison Lazenby
Chasing After Henry Aaron
by Matthew Johnson
Weekend in Pleasant Shade, Tennessee
by Annette Sisson
Geostationary: Marfa, Texas
by Jan Elaine Harris
Nat Geo poster on the exam room ceiling
by Madison Lazenby
Yoga at Western Correctional
by Paige Gilchrist
Fiction
Faster Than Your Arms
by Laton Carter
Carcass
by Richie Kurt
State Bird
by Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry
Have You Seen This Child?
by Roberto Ontiveros
Vita Nuova
by Greg Freed
Mind Reading
by Savannah Bell
About the Photographer
Scott Craig is a father, grandfather, cat dad and photographer from Roanoke, VA. He has taken photos since he was 9, but only got into the discipline “seriously” in 2006. After majoring in mass communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, he was an award-winning designer and copy editor during a 22-year newspaper career. The majority of that time was at the Daily Press in Newport News, VA., with stops at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the News Leader. His work has been published in the Artemis Journal and “The Rainbow Sky," a book about scientific exploration of light and color. He has also written and photographed for several publications including the Roanoke Times. His approach to photography has allowed him to express his curious nature, his artistic soul and his ability to see the extraordinary in the otherwise ordinary. Citing David Plowden as his photographic hero, he looks for opportunities to capture moments in place and time. In doing so, allows his images to tell the stories of the abandoned or the obscure, their beauty and enduring importance. He is currently a writing coach and tutor at Virginia Western Community College.