The Shore Issue 20 — Winter 2023

Sarah Barber
How to Tolerate the Ambiguous
How to Talk about Particles
How to Talk about the End of the Universe
The Rain

J P Dancing Bear
The Boss
Elegy with Gulls and Sand
Ghosts Know Nothing of Social Distancing

Tara Westmor
Lesser Muse
when we fall out of morning
mothers

Sarah Mills
The world is ending & I’m crying in the Taco Bell parking lot

Jane Zwart
I make something of my sadness
Prospectus

Justin Howerton
Life in Pay-Per-View
Castaway

Doug Ramspeck
Throwing Bones

David Dodd Lee
Late-Fall Lullaby
Wind Shift

Erinola E Daranijo
If a Nigerian Cannot Speak His Language

Allison Field Bell
Windows Open to the Night

Mickie Kennedy
Shoving Newspapers into My Shoes
Sonnet with Eyelids and Frogs

Romana Iorga
Survival Instinct

Melanie H Manuel
on watching scream (1996)

Abbie Kiefer
Growing Season with Losses

Anna Pele
Wake

Kelle Groom
Fever

Drew Buxton
Curt Hawkins to Mr. Perfect

Philip Jason
Theorems

James King
In Light of Recent Fires

Grace Marie Liu
Stop Motion

Osieka Osinimu Alao
Flowering Bones

Jane Satterfield
A Charm for Imbolc

Rachel Becker
What we think we want

Caitlyn Curran
And oh the color

Agnieszka Tworek
TV during Martial Law

Austin Allen James
Minus Eternity

Dorothy Lune
Burgeoning

Milla van der Have
swarmed, i'm sure

Kasey Jueds
Protection Litany

Josh Luckenbach
Folds

Kathleen Winter
A Wish, a Preference, a Desire

Alastair Morrison
From History

Taylor Franson-Thiel
Hymn for a Beehive

Seth Copeland
Greer County Fade

Ned Balbo
Underground Nymph

Constance Hansen
Afternoon

Susana Alcaraz
Art