The Shore Issue 18 — Summer 2023

Haley Winans
While I Watch Flesh Erode off a Raccoon Skull in a Pickle Jar
Earth Dumps Humanity

Sara Femenella
Infidel

Dorsey Craft
Taking Stock, Seven Months Postpartum
NICU

Lisa Lewis
When We Were Southerners

William Littlejohn-Oram
Neon Moon with Cicadas

Laura Apol
Regret

Matthew Gustafson
Poem from the Edge of Things

Tracey Knapp
Best Audience
Answer the Question

Sandra Fees
Empty Sky
Deskwork
“Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out”

Roman Bobek
When a tree dies,

Jordan Walker
In This Room
Consultation

Emily A Benton
Back Country
Great Wave

Jeff Newberry
To Build a Tower

Christopher McCormick
Tick Season

Katie Mora
The Mesophile

Ashish Kumar Singh
Love Is a Middle Class Thing

Allison Thung
Say

Fathia Quadri Eniola
Next life I will return as something sky-hitting.

Saba Husain
Late December and It’s Not Cold Yet

Matthew McDonald
No More Doppelgängers
Chicago Diner

Austin Segrest
City Brook
Celestial Realm

Matthew Murrey
Rust and Sweat

Amy DeBellis
Badland

Helena Mesa
Late

Inkyoo Lee
Terminus
Autobiography

Phoebe Buckley
Glory Dirt

Alexander Duringer
Buffalo’s Rising A

Dan Schall
Sifting the Overburden

Jamie Tews
South

Peggy Hammond
Distance

Andrew Vogel
Equinox Winds

Laurel Benjamin
Panel me
She springs from fissures,

Annette Sisson
Portrait of My Father’s Glaucoma

Phil Goldstein
My Bedroom Becomes a Field for Flowers

Lisa Low
Spending Time with My Father

Barbara Daniels
You ask about love

Adam D Weeks
Self-Talk

David Eileen Winn
Great Grandma Peers into My Panic Attack from Heaven

Sarah B Cahalan
This spider liquifies her organs

Andrew Spitzer
Art