Issue Nine

Cover Art: Angel concrete sculpture by Mario Loprete


Note From the Editor

POETRY

Justin Lacour
The Holy Mountain | Little Justin runs the voodoo down | Oh my, oh my, oh my

Robert L. Jones III
Like the Ox | Under the Boughs of the Spreading Oak

Anne Kundtz
Last Rites, Kiss | In the Ignatian Chapel | Callings

Jennifer Stewart
Bodie Island Lighthouse

Brendan Rowland
Strawberries | Elihu | Faith

Rp Verlaine
Near the East Village | Under Tin Hat

Donna Kathryn Kelly
Things the Internet Has Ruined (Humility) | Things the Internet Has Ruined (Interiority)

Janel Davis
Offerings | Mourning Baptism | Highway Wilderness

Kathleen Hirsch
The Grandmothers

Sheila Dougal
Some anniversaries | For life

Joseph A Farina
good friday

Natasha Bredle
How Beautiful the Feet

Kara M. Angus
The Thing of Shadows Is Gone

Lory Widmer Hess
Caught

Lee Kiblinger
Dawnsongs | Rain

Opeyemi Oluwayomi
The body of Christ

Ariana D. Den Bleyker
God Is in Me & Where the Boats Go So Often | The Aftermath of Healing

Lynn Finger
When the Angels Came for Ezekiel | Jesus, how can you lead me | After you died, Dad

Maura H. Harrison
A Father’s Wound | I’ll Know You in the Breaking

Caroline Liberatore
Let the Wicked Rest

Kent Reichert
Lifting the Veil

Daniel Romo
We, Too, Are Judas

Ron Hickerson
1000 Years with Mattie Keith | Wavering on Water

Jim Richards
Mario, Luigi, and Jesus of Nazareth

Mary Marie Dixon
Tree of Life


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FICTION

Greg Rapier
Trails

Margaret Beasley
Gethsemane

Maura H. Harrison
The Final Sentence

Mathew Block
Nunc Dimittis

Zee Mink
Sometimes the Rain Comes Hard

Noelle Wells
In Her Own Words, Evelyn | The Gospel of Skirts

Robert Kibble
These Three Remain

Avery S. Campbell
The Watcher and the Boy


NONFICTION

Nicole T. Walters
When Memory Becomes Prayer

Steve Adelmann
Suspensions

Robert L. Jones III
Within Five Minutes

Blake Kilgore
The Letter

Herbert Herrero
Three Places to Find a Man


Artwork by Irina Tall Novikova.


ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Jeremiah Gilbert
Salt Cathedral, Zipaquirá, Colombia | City Church, Koblenz, Germany | New Cathedral, Managua, Nicaragua

Mario Loprete
Angel Concrete Sculpture

Irina Tall Novikova
Four Drawings

Alexander Limarev
Loneliness | The Shining Cross of Faith | Temple of the Lord | Brotherhood of Souls and Hearts


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