December 2025 Issue

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Editor's Note

a.d., adolescence

J.S. Absher

          Longest Day

          Life List

Stephen Bauhart

          Twinkle Toes

          The Doer’s Song

Khayelihle Benghu, Love is Ajar

Kate Bluett, To My Son, On Fear

Isabel Chenot, Three Poems

Eric Colburn, This old experiment of green

john compton, study of figure 7

Andre Demers

          Soren Kierkegaard to Regine Olsen

          Mary Shelley to Frankenstein

          Augustine to Theodora

Abiodun Peter Ekundayo

          Water Boys

          In this Poem, Love Wears a Mask

Idinye Eweha Favour, A pen that loves

Maura H. Harrison, An Old Man of the Sea

E.J. Hutchinson

            Odi et Amo (Catullus 85)

            Nothing Gold Can Stay

Abigail Knutson

              Circle of Referents

              Heartbeat of an Appleseed

Bethel McGrew, Trinity

Geoffrey C. Porter, Flower Poem

Jason Reid, Fifty Bridegrooms

Jeffrey Rensch, Two Epigrams

Tamarah Rockwood, On the dock at Ogygia

David J. Rothman

          Ultima Thule

          Be There

Shane Schick, Authorization

Daniel Patrick Sheehan

          Hospice

          Anthill

          Irish Goodbye

Jake Sheff, The Seagull’s 402nd Seguidilla

Bradford Skow, When He Was With Us

Adam Strauss, Elite

Bret van den Brink, Tithonus in Autumn: A Fragment

Shannon Winestone, Virgil