Contents
Naked and Fallen
Jenna Citrus
Through Process
Emily Plummer
Tearing at Sores
Regis Louis
The Birth of Our Names
Tesneem Madani
Untitled No. 4
Sarah Kronz
Our Condition
Troy Neptune
On the Fundamentals of Art and the Soul
Ayla Maisey
In the Foreground
Aree Rachel Coltharp
Freedom
Winafret Casto
The Seventeen Seconds of Odette
Rachel Lietzow
Hidden in Sight
Jenna Citrus
Barrio
Casandra Robledo
The Passage
Liam Trumble
Resentment as a Kind of Relief
Eric Kubacki
Beauty Standards
Sarah Kronz
Over the Kanawha
Claire Shanholtzer
Faith
Anne Livingston
For Empty Spaces
Regis Louis
Entropy
Liam Trumble
Culled from the Flock
Deborah Rocheleau
Searching for Divinity
Madeleine Richey
From Pillars to Dust
Madeleine Richey
As Best I Could Do
Hoda Fakhari
In Your Absence
Emma Croushore
Contemplations
Sarah Kronz
The Shadow of Paris
Anika Maiberger
Memories of Home
Audrey Lee
The Beauty in Fracturing
Taylor Woosley
Butcher Paper
Casandra Robledo
Human Scavenger
Devin Prasatek
Babel Was a Second Eden
Luke McCusker
The Painting in Gallery 26
Sydney Crago
Transposing
Ayla Maisey
Culled from the Flock
Maybe God should talk to Hubble:
they have more references
between them. The telescope’s eye
is forever open to the universe.
The brilliant impressions of lifeless
stars, haloed supernovas
and other wonders far greater
than a lost sheep on a mountainside.
I wonder what they would talk about,
God and Hubble. Would He speak
in parables about herding moons
or birthing stars—about shearing
dust from nebulae? Or would such
metaphors be lost on so mechanical
a being. Humans calibrated its lens
to record silent portraits
of the night; we never equipped
it to detect a voice calling out in a
universe devoid of ears.
About The Author
Deborah Rocheleau is a junior at Wright State University, where she majors in English, with a concentration in TESOL. Through her studies, she has taught Chinese to American students and English to Chinese students. Her writing has been published previously by Tin House Open Bar, Silver Pen, Scarlet Leaf and several other publications.