The Shore Issue 22 — Summer 2024

John Gallaher
I’m Not Afraid of Pop Music
A Waxing List of Things I Never Became
The New Happy vs the Old Happy

Ben Cooper
The Sound of Terminal Lucidity
Elegy to the Vase of Dried Flowers on Your Bedside Table
Everything Before Us (Behind Us)

Susan Muth
Daughter Bugle
Containment

Julia Kooi Talen
Given Up Hearts
Bugs

Kate Welsh
In June, Pigeons

Brett Griffiths
Sonder

Sarah Burke
You walk through life

Peter Herring
Northern White Rhinos

Ahana Chakrabarti
Can't Take Your Call, Am Deep in the Ocean, Leave a Voicemail

Colleen Salisbury
Second-Hand Elegy

C C Russell
Translation of the Deck in a Certain Spring Sunlight

Mary Morris
Raft
Lascaux

Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Diagnosis as Fishing Net

Olivia Jacobson
The rooster floats, his feathers

Zeke Shomler
Song for the Need to Devour

Alyssa Jewell
The River Grand

Liz Robbins
Balm of Hurt Minds (Sleep)

Emilee Kinney
At 2 A.M.
Root-Bound

Meghan Sterling
Something Else Entirely

Lauren Mallett
Skipanon

Mark Majcher
Lacunae

Kelly Erin Gray
back bay, reclaimed

Naomi Madlock
Wintertide

Rachael Lyon
Seasoned Green

Elya Braden
At My Parents’ 45th Wedding Anniversary Party

Julia Lisella
Demolition

Christopher Faunce
Happiness & Co.

Amy Thatcher
Weird as a Girl

Jeremy Rock
Dreams in Which I’m the Lighting

Meredith MacLeod Davidson
Queen’s Park

Ana Prundaru
Old Haunt

Nathan Erwin
Text messages from my mother

Jacob Schepers
Graveside Pilgrim in Sackcloth and Lip Gloss

Kathryn Merwin
Menorrhagia

Calista Malone
Prednisone as Ornithophobia

Carson Colenbaugh
Love Song Scrawled at Shaking Rock

Bryan D Price
Jessie

Amanda Russell
Touchpoints

Jo Snow
I Do Not Know How to Talk about My Abuse, so I Will Talk around It.

Rachel White
Manna Gum

Rebekah M Rykiel
What Is Left of Want

J B Kalf
The Pennsylvanian Period

Madeline Hernstrom-Hill
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