The Shore Issue 9 — Spring 2021
Joshua Young “602-2”
Dana Blatte
Premonition with Extras
Jessica Poli
To My Second Lover
To My First Lover
Matthew Tuckner
Elegy with Balls of Neptune Grass
CD Eskilson
XNA-->XNA
Ode to an Anti-Joke
Dakota Reed
The Shapes a Hand Can Take
in the dream all the bees were dead
A woman in my neighborhood’s Facebook group asks, “where do the geese go at night?”
Kelsey Carmody Wort
Our Three-Quarters Phase
I Watch My Girlfriend Put Poetry under Her Microscope
O
Gemini Drunkenly Scrolling through Her Twitter Feed in the Bar Bathroom
Joshua Young “118”
Martha Silano
The blooming
Despite knowing the sun will implode,
SK Grout
Ghosting
Hilary King
Death Tries a Meal Delivery Service
Babo Kamel
The cursor pulses like a silent metronome of the not yet written
She shows them her part of town
Noa Saunders
Up Beacon Hill
Shepherd
Jeremy Michael Reed
Paradise
Joshua Young “244”
Lucy Zhang
Only We Were Left
Lacto-Fermentation
Maillard Reaction
C Samuel Rees
Last Days of Small Archangels
Becki Hawkes
Hidden Teeth
Kevin Grauke
A History of the Newest Term of Venery
An Invitation, of Sorts
Jenny Wong
Rua Augusta
Steven Pfau
Sappho at Gem State Crystals, Moscow, Idaho
Ashley Steineger
Grief Poem while Hiking
Joshua Young “15”
Danielle Pieratti
Mothers of Boys
Eric Steineger
Sylvia, Becoming
Farnaz Fatemi
Artifacts
Scarlett Peterson
Every Garden a Munition Plant
Sarah Elkins
Going Home
Katie Holtmeyer
Cadavers
Robert Fanning
The Rose Peddler
Jean Theron
City from Above
Heidi Seaborn
For my first marriage,
After Life, the Carnival Begins
Joshua Young “153”
Caroline Riley
False Spring, or Brighton
Not Babies
Sarah Stickney
Sinkhole: Future
David Keplinger
Encirclement
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
The Exorcistic Pillage of My Ruined Body
Tara A Elliott
The World
Lauren Mallett
Porfa
Richard Prins
Samson’s Blues
Sam Sobel
wheels and the Difference
Joshua Young
Art