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
Meditation through a Window
by Samir Knego
Begin by closing your eyes and paying attention to your breathing.
Inhale 1-2-3, exhale 3-2-1. Continue these slow, deep breaths with your eyes closed. If the window in front of you is open, you might acknowledge the warmth or chill or wind you feel through it, but try not to focus on it too much for now (if the weather is distracting, you may want to close the window).