Contents

Editorial

Venturing into Space | Caroline Langston

Poetry

Recipe | Wayne Bornholdt

16. fire & 24. wrapping paper | Conner Cowan

In Catholic School; Daughters of Eve, Eat This Scroll; Elegy | E. R. Skulmoski

found & subtlety: an assay | Matthew E. Henry

How Like a Child We Become When We Are Truly Surprised | Matt Stanley

My Woven Kipa | Maxim D. Shrayer

Devil Music | Justin Lacour

ceremonial | Jonathan Chan

The Good Portion & Poet’s Tea | Susan Shea

On a Shore Weighing What Matters | Caleb Westbrook

Nonfiction

A Mother’s Prayer | Jennifer Lendvai-Lintner

Review

Listening to Our Pain: A Review of the Book Nervous | Lory Widmer Hess

Contemplative Practices

Meditation through a Window | Samir Knego

Readers Respond: Light

Interview

The Sacredness of All Things: Poet Wen-Juenn Lee
in Conversation with Darby Brown

Don’t miss these other works in the Winter 2024 issue:

The Poem in the Middle of Everywhere | Charlene Langfur

Staring at Dahlias on Sunday [an epiphany] | David James

Prayer After the Rain Fell in Sheets | Hope Engel

Fiction

You Didn’t Love Me | Roberta Murphy

Visual Art

Moremi | Funfere Koroye

Making “Canticle of the Creatures” | Margaret Adams Parker

Cover Art: Sister Water from Canticle of the Creatures by Margaret Adams Parker