Issue Thirty-Three: Summer 2024

The grass along the walking path here in central Florida has turned brown and brittle under the early summer sun, longing for afternoon thunderstorms, for the greening and growing that will come with rain. Our summer issue opens with the loss of this possibility, with "dead tendrils lost in their search / for what will not return." This theme of buried potential returns as "Clay, impenetrable, / covering where prairie once was," or as a butterfly's death that “barely left a shadow.” However, a dormant hope survives, often in unity, as "not deer, / not boy, / just sprung / into the forest," and in "a mustard / seed of (?) faith" in unknowing. The issue includes work by Amelia Shields, Becky Boling, D. E. Green, David Q. Hutcheson-Tipton, Gregory Meece, Jaime Lam, James B. Nicola, Jamey Gallagher, Jen Schneider, Jimmy T. Christon, John Saint Sylvain, Kathy Bruce, Keith Morris, Kelly Terwilliger, Kristel Rietesel-Low, Madison Silva, Margaret B. Ingraham, Martin Agee, Nicole Gnezda, and Rachel R. Baum.