Poetry

Poetry
Joshua Patch

Malchus

There are at least two Machuses in heaven. Malchus according to LUke has at least two ears but no name …

Poetry
Paul J. Willis

Michigan Spring

First leaves of trout lily among the roots of a bare beech tree …

Poetry
Caroline Liberatore

Manual Labor

Against the turnings of solstice hope sprouts eternal …

Poetry
William D. Howden

Wrapped and Laid

Wrapped and laid beginning and end bloth and cloth birth and death …

Poetry
Taylor Mallay

Every Sunday Morning

the phone rings–my grandmother’s voice winds through static, light as the creek curling around her back porch …

Poetry
Mark Hiskes

It’s About Us

It’s about us which is an empathy pronoun, replacing her and him and you and it and, praise the Lord, other.

Poetry
Margaret DeRitter

Lost Sheep

Seventy-seven pounds of wool on that merino sheep who got lost
in the Outback.

Poetry
Patrick T. Reardon

Table

Let the sparrow take a chair at the Juneteenth table with Elijah …

Poetry
Michael Zysk

You Said, Let There Be Light

You said, Let there be light, and there was light. And you saw that the light was good …

Poetry
Sarah M. Wells

Jesus, Son of Gop

On the night he was supposed to be betrayed, Jesus strapped on a Glock under his cloak, just in case the breastplate of righteousness didn’t

Poetry
Andrew Lansdown

Blessed

Unnoticed except by their Maker, my wife and me–a dozen sparrows blissful at their ablutions …