Issue One: What Remains
The Theme for the first issue is 'what remains'. Think work that encompasses the beauty of memory and grief, nostalgia and longing. Work that lingers, that hangs in the air like dust from the sofa in your grandmother's house and the smell of her rose perfume. Memory and trust and longing all rolled into one.
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Table of Contents
Zaina Alam, Almost Home 6
Ella Newman, Martyr 7
Wayne Broadway, Closure 8
Jason Davidson, Accident 11
Jason Davidson, Helmet 13
Stephen Mead, Regaining 14
Rachel Turney, Grief Grip 16
Nicole Yucurba, ANNA MARUSYA LOADS THE RIFLE OF THE NIGHT & PREPARES FOR THE BANSHEE'S RETURN 15
Laurie Archer, My Insidious State of Mind 19
Verushka Cizzelle, What the Earth Kept 20
Laurie Archer, My House of Change 22
Audrey-Anna Gamache, The Shoe Game 23
Kelly R. Samuels, Found, 1970 25
Ros Carter, Baby Elephant 26
Kelly R. Samuels, Ode For What has been Submerged 27
Matthew Brinkley, If You Go First 28
May Garner, I Wish I Could Save My Mother 29
Nasta Martyn, Portrait of a Woman 32
Stephen Brown, Evan, in Small Ways 33
Peter Devonald, A Heron Waits. 42
GP Dunn, Listening to the Judd in the Bathtub 43
Tukur Loba Ridwan, No Place for Memories. 48
Caitlin Breen Ehler, Wild Strawberry. 49
Anna Mindel Crawford, Evergreens Shift Between. 50
Anna Mindel Crawford, The Things He Told Me 51
Clarabelle Miray Fields, Childhood Tree 52
J Symmonds, Peace is a Power Move. 53
Alexandra Evans, Catch and Release 54
Aaron Baker, Glass Theology 57
Özge Lena, Like an Otter I Store What Remains of Our Love 59
Traci Neal, Help Hearts Thrive 60
List of Contributors 61