The Shore Issue 21 — Spring 2024

Madeline Allen
Click Bug
Aubade
Parable of the Fawn

Isabella Piedad Escamilla
You Don't Have to Believe Any of This

Lexi Pelle
The Nuns Came by Bus
Quickglow

Anne Barngrover
A soft, confused, hollow rustling fills the air
The writing of the wind

Lara Egger
Handsome

Sarah Anne Stinnett
A week after his memorial

Laura Donnelly
Ways of Loving the World
The Sky Bright Between
The Naturalist

Kelli Russell Agodon
Devotion for a Cosmo that Can’t Contain Us

Sofia Fall
The Moth
Silo

Martha Silano
Possible Diagnosis

Mary Simmons
Victorian Hair Jewelry

Erin Redfern
My Father vs. Language

Brooke Sahni
Freudian Dream

Emma Murf
NPR reports mummified monkey remains found in luggage at Boston's airport
Appalachia Talk

Nain Christopherson
Winter

Whitney Waters
Summer Solstice

Kelly Gray
Night Study

Christian Ward
The Peaches

David Cazden
As a Child, I Hold a Mercury Thermometer under My Tongue

Caylee Gardner
The Moon on the Lake Makes Two

Anthony Borruso
Scorsese Dreamsong

Christine Barkley
Requiem Sharks
Doubting Disease

Lizzy Ke Polishan
creat(i)o(r/n)

Katherine Smith
June

BEE LB
iron dream

Eric Cline
On the Field One Night

Michael Mark
Dammit, Santiago!

Christine E Hamm
O the domesticity of these windows

Leona Sevick
Korean Pears

Sarah Elkins
Still Life with the Same Dimple

Brendan Byrne
Too Many Crows in the Sky

Lauren Swift
variables

Robert Fillman
Who carries photos in wallets
Procession on a Road near Florence

Donna Vorreyer
What a Girl Wants

Cristi Donoso
Phonology

Lawrence Bridges
High Winter Prairie

Jeannine Hall Gailey
Cassandra Explains the Secrets of Survival, Plague Edition

Aaron Poochigian
The Difference

Ronda Piszk Broatch
Writing a Poem with a Glass of Wine or Two, and Three Pieces of Chocolate

Julia Kooi Talen
Art