Issue Seven

Cover Art: “Corpus Anima” by Ena Gilih


Note from the Editor

POETRY

Emily Louise
Manna | At the Pharmacy | Days of Noah

Vern Fein
Theology | Saturday (An Easter Poem)

Johanna Caton
My Mother’s Body | Naming

Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle
I split the afternoon

Linda McCullough Moore
Garden of Eden | Sacrifice | What Faith | Muddy Water

Nithya Mariam John
Naked Prayers | jonah | Siesta

Mary Eileen Ball
Murder | Eema | Oh, the Lamb

Ron Riekki
trauma | The woman I counsel asks me if I will pray with her | after being shown pictures of dead children

Mary Grace van der Kroef
Omnipresent | Things Made

Carol Edwards
Again

Mary Hills Kuck
Halos | It’s Cold Out There

Rachel Michelle Collier
LUCY CHALLENGES THE SUN

Andy Stager
Holyday in Zurich | Credo

Steven Duncan
Rust and Tears | Turbulence

Tiffany Nicole Fletcher
The Woman with the Issue

Terri Martin Wilkins
Ice

Luigi Coppola
The Light in the Nightclub

Donna Kathryn Kelly
Things the Internet has Ruined (Modesty)

Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
If I Could Tell You, I Would

Anthony Butts
Heart of Gold | The Legend of Lisa the Meek

Karen Abeyta
Transcendent Worship

Nolo Segundo
Vanity and Dust

Annie Harpel
actively waiting

Kimberly Phinney
Still Life | Bath

Teague McKamey
The Vineyard

John Savoie
Consider the Lily | Along the Dirt Road

Lyndi Waters
The Problem with Dreams | But then one day I pushed on the gate | The gardener wants to do something about the prairie dogs


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FICTION

N.T. McQueen
Blurry Frames

Michael Cocchiarale
Angel of Death Victorious | Portion

Nicholas A. Carrington
Words and Symbols

Michael Gigandet
If Jesus Doesn’t Mind, I Don’t


NONFICTION

Katy Huth Jones
Mum’s Not the Word, Love Is

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
The Return of Suzy Sunshine


“Rome” by Jeremiah Gilbert.


ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Leemour Pelli
Journey I and II

Cecilia Martinez
Watering Flowers

Ena Gilih
Corpus Anima

Jeremiah Gilbert
Rome | San Juan | San Salvador

Irina Novikova
Angel with a Sphere


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