Vol. 8 No. 4

Spring 2026

Li'l Red on Her Way to Grandma's House (The Moon Is an Illumination of Human Darkness)
Editor's Note
Mary Mary Is Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Blackberries
waxing lyrical about something you said
Taxidermy Childhood
Conversation
Book Signing
On the Land
Painting Partners (painting as a past time)
What Built the Ground
Earning the Day
Battle with an Ant Hill
Nurture at Cooper’s Rock
Water Whistle Pantoum
Listing in One Direction
Duct-Taped Green Chair
ode to dissociation
Poem For H.D. After Online Shopping
Feminine Mapping (but it's not her world)
The Gender Roles of Cattle
Elegy for a Friend in Fibonacci Sequence
Revolutions
I was a seagull once
Girlhood
Hospice
Instructions for washing my mother’s coat, after the funeral
The Light that Remains
on hearing Luke Comb’s cover of “Fast Car” for the first time, over the P.A., as students walked into my class
“Today I am full of birds”
Some Notes on the Present Moment
Would You Like Us To Say A Prayer?
Weather Report
Metamorphosis
Threshold
Pigeonholing
The Unbreakable Silence
Through a Window Colombia
Wondering Why Laundry Keeps Showing Up in Students’ Poems this Semester
Hard Plastic
Inventory for a Small Loss
Twenty Questions for My Son
Let me wash your hands
tangerine
The Year the Planet-Eaters Came
Our Hair
Sonnet for Gen X
Terminal
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Shedding
Sestina before a high school reunion you won’t attend
Lifetimes
To Be Here
A Man Who Keeps A Void
Poem for a Fairy Godmother
praying in a florida airport
Quick Fix
In Wormholes
Carta di Sangue
Untitled 1
Midnight Waltz
Walking Down the Mountain after Sunset
He Lives On A Mountain And She Does Not
The House When I’m Away
plan de fuga / escape plan
Ode
Railroad
How to Stalk Your Parents
Ars Poetica in My Kitchen
Me and the Angels
The Wild Hive
Flying Saucer Season
Shark Teeth
One Night, When My Daughter Was Four Years Old, She Interrupted The Bedtime Story She Had Requested In Order To Tell Me
Wild Botanica 1460
More Than Forty Years
Hard as Nails
Ghosts Who Don’t Know They’re Dead
Wonder Woman Joins a Postnatal Adjustment Programme
At the Edge of Stillness
How to Seem Like a Normal Person
Friend Shaped
Things That Learn To Speak
Icarus
The Bliss of the Picturesque (Romantic Misfits)