Adrie Rose
Diagnosis Summer

Adrie Rose - Diagnosis Summer

Poetry
Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her chapbook Rupture is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2023, and she has a micro chap forthcoming in… Read more »
Jared Beloff
Mezuzahs

Jared Beloff - Mezuzahs

Poetry
Jared Beloff is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the Marvel-inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer… Read more »
Allisa Cherry
My Mother’s Cold Hands

Allisa Cherry - My Mother’s Cold Hands

Poetry
Allisa Cherry’s poetry has recently appeared in The Maine Review, Nine Mile Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Rust + Moth, The Columbia Review, High Desert Journal, and The Account, and has received… Read more »
Sarah Elkins
Refusal

Sarah Elkins - Refusal

Poetry
Sarah Elkins lives in southern West Virginia. Her work is forthcoming from or has recently appeared in The Cimarron Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Quarterly West, Hiram Poetry Review, SWWIM, Porter… Read more »
Kimberly Glanzman
Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House

Kimberly Glanzman - Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House

Poetry
Kimberly Glanzman (she/her) earned her MFA from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Electric Lit, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse, Harpur Palate, Whale Road, and Barely South, among… Read more »
Michael Minassian
The Cathedral of Time

Michael Minassian - The Cathedral of Time

Poetry
Michael Minassian is a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual, an online poetry journal. His poetry collections Time is Not a River, Morning Calm, and A Matter of Timing as well as a new chapbook, Jack… Read more »
Jane Zwart
There are so many levels called darkness

Jane Zwart - There are so many levels called darkness

Poetry
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, and… Read more »
Pete Mackey
Wood

Pete Mackey - Wood

Poetry
Pete Mackey’s poetry has been published in numerous venues, most recently in West Trade Review, Moving Force Journal, Farmer-ish, Bangalore Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Third Wednesday,… Read more »

The Cathedral of Time

Michael Minassian

When my uncle died, my aunt smashed all the clocks in the house, unplugged the TV & her telephone, hung mirrors on every wall. In case he comes back, she whispered, I want to see him first. When I offered to drive her to the cathedral, she handed me the keys: keep your foot on the gas, she cried, I don’t want to be late. At the service, the priest talked about resurrection, & families re-uniting— a brief window into eternity. I walked away scattering broken pieces of clocks, like rice at a wedding of time and death.
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