Issue Four

Cover Art: “Ruth, Naomi, and Orpah” by Veronica McDonald


Note from the Editor


Poetry

Rachel Michelle Collier
all she had to do Was. | DONNELL MEETS THE STRANGEST SIGHT OF ALL HIS LIFE! |the Angry god

Gale Acuff
Pumps | Small | /

Don Thompson
Litany | Shofars | Seaweed

Pamela S. Wynn
Lazarus | Eavesdropping at Christmas | Epiphany

Anthony Butts
Rainbow Soldier | How God Raised the Alarm | The Victory

Riley Bounds
Commemoration. | Dusk Hymn.

Laura Lou Catherine
The Dead Sea is Not Dead to She

John C. Mannone
Water

Shera Hill
Mirthios, Crete: Easter 1986

MistyRose ™ Bosworth
QUE SERA

Matthew Miller
The Swineherd Begins to Recognize the Demon | Psalm of Lament | But We are Not Rudderless

Jonathan Taylor
Hogslaughter, Butchertown KY

Terri Martin Wilkins
Angles | Path | Joy

Terry Dawley
Fly to the Sun

Phyllis Hemann
DIVINE CONCERTO | MASTERPIECE | PLAYING GOD

Carol L. Park
Being an Us

Elder Gideon
I Professed | All the While Yahweh | Die to Give

Rp Verlaine
Her Great Faith | Rapture

O. Yemi Tubi
My Mother

Rachel Hayes
Out of the Ark | Dovetail

Bernard Pearson
A Good Life


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Fiction

Michael Cocchiarale
An Unfinished Prayer

Shera Hill
God’s Day

Linda Lacy
Jazz


Nonfiction

Abigail J. Allen
The Woman at the Well

Hope Johnson
Resurrection

MistyRose ™ Bosworth
Holy Wisdom Emptied

Amy Nicholson
On the Floor

Helga Gruendler-Schierloh
Recycling Good Will

Lynne Farmer
From the Depths


Photo: “Go Forth” by Clarissa Cervantes


Art & Photography

O. Yemi Tubi
It is Finished! The Stone is Rolled Away | The Big Apple | My Mother

Clarissa Cervantes
Go Forth | Sunset of Faith

Lisa Anne Tindal
Gethsemane | Holy Water


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