issue eight
spring 2024
In Memoriam
Zoey
Beloved dog, faithful companion, and trusty navigator
Poetry
Ode to What I Kept in my Dresser
by Madeleine French
Cluster
by Alston Tyer
In an MRI Tube at Roanoke Memorial Hospital
by Cory Crouser
Fincastle Farm Fence Elegy
by Cory Crouser
Ode to Generalized Anxiety Disorder
by Ronnie K. Stephens
Small Delights
by Pamela Manasco
Koko’s kitten
by Matthew Moniz
Carptenter bees that worry us at our door
by Ann Long
Praise Song for Mother’s Day
by Kathie Collins
Inviolable
by Sean Sexton
Don’t Look Away
by Liz Bruce
Only the Cow Knew
by Shome Dasgupta
Gardening Instructions for New Mothers
by Pamela Manasco
Oakland Cemetery, August 2016
by Ross White
Sweetridge
by Alston Tyer
Nonfiction
Each day the body grows stronger
by Faune Albert
Love in the Time of Abortion’s ‘Had To’ Question
by Dwaine Rieves
Metamorphosis
by Breanna Claire
All the Mothers
by Karen Salyer McElmurray
About the Photographer
Kellie Sharpe is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and an East Tennessean through and through. These mountains and everything that lives and grows in them have been one of the greatest loves of her life. This is where she started and this is where she’ll end. Her photos of all the beautiful things she’s seen are what's going to be most important to her kids one day. They've seen so much of it with her and now they have their memories recorded forever.