The Shore Issue 16 — Winter 2022

Ellery Beck
Augmented Pastoral
In Winter, We Tried to Write
Bight
Ars Poetica
Pocket Pastoral

Nasser Alsinan
They’re Selling Our Blood at the Dollar Tree
A Smooth Stone Is an Attempt

Ryan Varadi
The Year of Failed Augury
Orion

Michael Goodfellow
Did Endings Have Shape

John Glowney
Crow Eats This Rotten World Every Day, Circa 2022

Heather Qin
The Other Side

Helen Nancy Meneilly
augmentation through fire

Mary Simmons
I Am Looking for Marrow in These Woods
The Train Does Not Stop

Justin Carter
We Find a Soup Can from 1989 in My Grandmother's Cupboard
In the Country We'd Lost

Michael Agunbiade
Home

Maggie Boyd Hare
In the Shuttle Leaving Earth

Maya C Thompson
Louisville Supremum (with Glass)
Preterit Eviction C17

Ronda Piszk Broatch
What Did the Lichen Whisper?

Chris McCann
Starched, Blue
Pulling a Thread

Margaret M Kelly
Fact Patterns Supporting the Existence of Dragons

Daniel Dias Callahan
The Reaping

Katie Tian
The First Derivative and Its Applications on Girlhood

Martha Silano
Why I Want to Be a Noble Gas

Marina Brown
Holodomor
An Avenue in Autumn and Photographs of California

Mike Wilson
Faces on Milk Cartons

Anthony Gabriel
Crop Study

Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale
The Island Designated Yes

Shannon Hardwick
A creature prone to violence might attack you

Kevin Roy
Colony Collapse

Jay Brecker
The Way He’s Moved

Lauren Badillo Milici
On the Last Good Night

Grant Schutzman
[We live in the cemetery]
[You move as if with poems in your pockets]

Monica Cure
A Country of My Mother

Brandon Hansen
Earth Yet Again

Erin Wilson
Theme and Variation

Lucas Dean Clark
Crossing
Ohio After

M Cynthia Cheung
Forms of Water

Leland Seese
A Walk Home from the School Bus Stop, November 9, 1967, 3:43:34 p.m., PST

Joey Wańczyk
Dead Deer

Kimberly Ann Priest
Intermission

Joe Dahut
My Third Hurricane Season in My Twenty-Fifth Year

Vanessa Couto Johnson
I'm all dewclaws

taylor d waring
Art