Cover Art: Jocelyn Mathewes

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Contents

Poetry

Pa’ Huele & A Toddler’s Doubt | Alfonso Sito Sasieta

Last Supper | Maria Giura

Soloist | James Owens

Satsang with Guruji | James Hannon

"Be as a ringing glass..." & Funeral | B.J. Buckley

Falling Star, by Romare Bearden | Jenna K. Funkhouser

apophasis | Jonathan Chan

The False Prophetess Noadiah | Julie L. Moore

Ars Poetica, Obstetrics, Painting, and the Rough Draft | Sean Sexton

Fiction

Living Locks | Stephen J. Wallace

Nonfiction

An Ode to an Ode about Hands | Rebecca Moon Ruark

Reviews

Finding Meaning in Modernity: Two Books about Quest  | Cheryl Sadowski

Reviews of Why We Are Restless & God, Human, Animal, Machine

Contemplative Practice

Made by Hand: A Meditation with Clay | Marjory Bankson

Don’t miss these other works in the Winter 2022 issue:

The Tale of the Lustful Rabbi | Jennifer Anne Moses

The Geography of Hope | Jocelyn Mathewes

Hospitality of the Soul: Visual Artist Maria Eugenia Fee in Conversation with Judy Ko

The God Spark: Writer Jennifer Anne Moses in Conversation with Caroline Langston