Winter 2024
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
Venturing into Space | Caroline Langston
Poetry
The Poem in the Middle of Everywhere | Charlene Langfur
Staring at Dahlias on Sunday [an epiphany] | David James
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
Prayer After the Rain Fell in Sheets | Hope Engel
Devil Music | Justin Lacour
ceremonial | Jonathan Chan
The Good Portion & Poet’s Tea | Susan Shea
On a Shore Weighing What Matters | Caleb Westbrook
Fiction
You Didn’t Love Me | Roberta Murphy
Nonfiction
A Mother’s Prayer | Jennifer Lendvai-Lintner
Visual Art
Moremi | Funfere Koroye
Making “Canticle of the Creatures” | Margaret Adams Parker
Review
Listening to Our Pain: A Review of the Book Nervous | Lory Widmer Hess
Interview
The Sacredness of All Things: Poet Wen-Juenn Lee
in Conversation with Darby Brown
Contemplative Practices
Meditation through a Window | Samir Knego
Cover Art: Sister Water from Canticle of the Creatures by Margaret Adams Parker
A Mother’s Prayer
by Jennifer Lendvai-Lintner
With little fingers, I mush the contents of a tiny plastic packet awaiting instruction from my teacher that I can open it. When she says it’s time, I pull out the long beaded strand. It meets in a “Y” at the Miraculous Medal before descending to a crucifix.