Spring 2025
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
Or Does It Explode? | Caroline Langston
Poetry
How you go on about the other woman | Linda Laderman
Atonia, Eve of St. Mark & Early Easter | Ryan Harper
The moor & Eating with the dead | Sue Proffitt
For What Do You Give Thanks? | Abigail Carroll
The Chapel Matron | Jan Wiezorek
Samsara Study & And Sanctify Us Also | Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
peace (ii) | Jonathan Chan
Not Like Ordinary Horses | Alex Lee
The Valley of the Living | Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
Sunday at the SoCal winery | Elizabeth Hamilton
The Artist to Her Daughter | Judith Sornberger
Sunday Prayers & Intinction | Wayne R Bornholdt
Uncle Julius Gifts Me with Awe | Fran Markover
Uncertain Opposites | Maryella Desak Sirmon
The Pause | Christopher Honey
Fiction
Beulah Land | Corey Flintoff
Nonfiction
How to Buy a Rainbow | Alice Wyman
Water | Joyce H. Munro
The Sacrament of Silence | Layne Matthews Boles
Visual Arts
Three Days and Three Nights | Douglas Porter
God Is That You? | Tonia Martin
Reviews
When Silence Roars
A Review of Aflame by Pico Iyer
Cheryl Sadowski
“we sing into the shadows of too much sorrow”
A Review of Waiting for the Mercy Ship by Lois Roma-Deeley
Brandon James O’Neil
Contemplative Practices
The Art of Contemplative Photography | Jacqueline Wallen
Cover Art: From Three Days and Three Nights by Douglas Porter
“we sing into the shadows of too much sorrow”
A Review of Waiting for the Mercy Shipby Lois Roma-Deeley (Broadstone Books, 2025)
by Brandon James O’Neil
Lois Roma-Deeley’s Waiting for the Mercy Ship documents the poet’s own purgatorial journey, which like Dante’s, coincides with personal loss and is urged forward by great love.