Lance Larsen
“Everything Is a Prayer to Something”

Lance Larsen - “Everything Is a Prayer to Something”

Poetry
Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). He’s won a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Sewanee, Ragdale,… Read more »
Hannah Whiteman
Callinectes Sapidus

Hannah Whiteman - Callinectes Sapidus

Poetry
"Set in Maryland" Contest Winner Hannah Whiteman received her MFA from the University of Florida. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she teaches English. Read more »
Ed Meek
Climate Change

Ed Meek - Climate Change

Poetry
Ed Meek has had poems in The American Poetry Journal, The Sun, Plume, and The Paris Review. His new book, High Tide, is available at Aubadepublishing.com. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with… Read more »
Charlie Clark
Devil Watching as, in the Midst of Your Isolation, Your Child Insists on Opening All of Her Umbrellas

Charlie Clark - Devil Watching as, in the Midst of Your Isolation, Your Child Insists on Opening All of Her Umbrellas

Poetry
Charlie Clark studied poetry at the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in The New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, Threepenny Review, West Branch, and other journals.… Read more »

Callinectes Sapidus

Hannah Whiteman

    — a love poem


Beautiful swimmer. Such grace in the name
of a bottom-floor scuttler, paddle-legged flailer
whose apron I crack like a book spine to read
the little meat inside. I understand beauty late:
how females mate only once. Molting, the male
carries her in sapphire-tinged claws into the sea,
guards her as she sheds all skin. After, he holds
her body—hardening—until she can travel safely.
Up the Chesapeake, she carries millions of eggs
alone to release; watches the last of those loved
swim away beautifully. Months and months ago
you carry me into a restless Atlantic; hold me
tenderly in the face of an unbroken horizon only
to swim—strong—to shore. I watch, hardening.
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