The Shore Issue 28 — Winter 2025

Emily Rosko
Limerence Ode
Complaint to Gas-Powered Leaf-Blowers
Killer Instinct

Gabby Zankowitz
Outside Our Complex Somewhere between Nocturne and Aubade
Circulation
Crocus Hour

Lizzy Ke Polishan
catafalque
here is the end of everything

Rebecca Brock
On the Second Morning of a New Year

Atia Sattar
On Airplanes, I Think about Dying

Emily Harman
Recognition

Giljoon Lee
Arrival

K Hari
Permit as Ars Poetica

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
Fantasy with Night Sky & Sailor Knot

Melanie McCabe
Night Trick

Safira Khan
Elegy for the Damned

Ashley Mo
Everything I Learned about Death, I Learned from Three Ants

Julia C Alter
Migration Season in Vermont

Stephanie Chang
Alpenglow

Maria Giesbrecht
Cloud legs

Allison Blevins
I Imagine a Cage When I Think of You

Adam Chiles
The Singing Gate

Samuel Day Wharton
Winter Storm

Kevin Clark
Fuselage
Rue

Brooke Harries
Jiffy
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo

Julie Wong
prey drive

Sumayya Arshed
I’m sorry I forgot you after the funeral

Mariana Gioffre
leda

Grace Lynn
Assembly Lines

Michael J Kolb
Garden Shed

Elizabeth Porter
Chaperoning American Teenagers through Dachau Concentration Camp

Christopher Buckley
Profligate

Hayden Park
Last Photograph of God

Grace Anne Anderson
Pas de Deux: Doing Dishes

Ruiyan Zhu
On the Swing

Topher Shields
Fox Testament

Sarah Horner
Asclepias

Terry Tierney
Call Me Before It Melts

Staci Halt
February Breath

Alejandra Vansant
The Tunnels

Arpita Roy
Thrift Store

Veronica Fletcher
Drill

Peter Pizzi
Kids in America

Mary Fontana
Murder

Zixuan (Angel) Xin
dysmorphia

Shari Zollinger
Mamoun’s

Caleb Jagoda
Safer Means of Travel

McKinley Johnson
stoop

Natalie Rainer
Art