The Shore Issue 13 — Spring 2022

Lisa Compo
Postscript
Exilic Return
Small Haunts

Stephen Lackaye
The Heart in the Royal Ontario Museum
The Poet at Seventeen
Marriage
After All

Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Syllabics

Jen Gayda Gupta
Training
The most intimate thing in the world

Jess Smith
Retreat
People I Envy the Most

Jane Zwart
Artificial Light
Mapparium

Simon Montgomery
There’s Something I Forgot to Tell You
Nice to See You

Lee Potts
After Hours

Calgary Martin
Mercy
Wave III

Daniel Ruiz
Still Life at Warp Speed

Shannon Ryan
Fruit Set
Scraps
Wake

Wendy BooydeGraaff
Mother

Lori Lamothe
Revolution in the Back Bay

Adam J Gellings
Two Poems after Sabine Weiss

Mikko Harvey
Work Life

Sy Brand
To Grow in All Directions

Sam Rye
Rag and Bone

DS Maolalai
The Sun, Its Sharpened Shadows

Carolyn Oliver
Horses in the Mist

Victoria Mbabazi
Game Night at the Fifth House

Samuel Prince
A Dawn Wander in Modern Living

Christien Gholson
What holds everything together

Michael Battisto
Dry Cool Garden

Sara Fitzpatrick
The Promise of Rot

Ja’net Danielo
This body I have tried to write,

Stephanie Kaylor
He Tells Me to Take Care of Myself

Afton Montgomery
Tuesday after the long weekend

Jenny Della Santa
Trying to Find My Mother in the Dark

José Angel Araguz
Pen

Sihle Ntuli
Mozambique

Jeanine Walker
A Plea

Julia Hands
car camped on the olympic coast

Matthew Herskovitz
In the Event of Moon Disaster

Katherine Huang
The Watchmaker Dreams

Malorie Varnell
Jellyfish, Freshwater (Craspedacusta Sowerbii)

Meredith Arena
Crow Time

Laurie Sewall
dream of the great water-being

Ariel Clark-Semyck
nausea

Kevin McIlvoy
Privacy Curtain

Rachel Marie Patterson
Market

Nadine Rodriguez
Art