The Shore Issue 27 — Autumn 2025

Ashe Prevett
The god of latex and plastics

Natalie Homer
After a Windstorm
Post-Op

Jane Zwart
Folding
Pink

Jacob J Billingsley
A Sober Spell
Engineered Futures

Julia Liu
State Lines
Daybreak

Ruby Cook
The Taste of Sweet Pea Leaves
I wore white to her funeral

Daniel Lurie
Letter I Wish My Father Wrote from Eastern Montana

Elizabeth Hazen
Approximations

Sarah Giragosian
Nocturne for Elise
Obvious Augury

Mubashira Patel
disillusion

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
The Museum of Loss and Renewal

Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Thoughts on the Invention of the Alphabet from a Cottage in Prince Edward Island

Yong-Yu Huang
Clark Street Beach in April

Patricia Davis-Muffett
America, 2025

Eleanore Tisch
Language at Large

David Eileen
In the roof religion where rain is a trial & the thatch all prays

Amelia Yuan
first light

Ali Beheler
The Whole Year, Fallboard Down

Zackary Jarrell
A letter from mucous

R K Fauth
October in Miniature
Small Talk

Haley King
Where I Lost Sonnet

Caitlin Scarano
Mud Season with Her Glass Flowers

Marc Alan Di Martino
Dear Liz—

Joshua Zeitler
Transition Diary I

Lily Daly
The Girl Who Turned into Dirt and the Lover Held On

Michelle Ivy Alwedo
By 2050 There Will Be More Plastic in the Sea than Fish

Margaret Hanshaw
New Year's Day

Natalie Eleanor Patterson
Today, My Mouth

Gavin Garza
Why I Still Can't Talk About IBLP

Andrew Kelly
Prank Call

Melody Wilson
Singularity

Cora Schipa
Brackish

Alicia Rebecca Myers
April Fools

Sara Hovda
Night’s Grammar

Caleb Braun
These Fine Auroras

Allison Wu
at the fish market, ama tells me she cannot remember

Ana Paneque
Cyst

Andy Breckenridge
Carrying a Torch along the Shoreline

Jane McKinley
Silence

Anders Villani
When Closing Post-Surgical Drains

Hazelyn Aroian
Boon Lake

Brendan Payraudeau
Chokecherry

Laurel Benjamin
In this poem we will not lie about a valley

Melissa Marsh
Art