The Shore Issue 23 — Autumn 2024

Abigail Cloud
On the use of Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758) concerning your manner of death
On the limited use of Ascalapha odorata to predict a death
The Oracle’s Stenographer Renames Lepidoptera

Emma Bolden
Nights in White Satin
Before the Hysterectomy
Adaptive Solutions

Melissa Holm Shoemake
Meditation over a Lagunitas Beer with iPhone

Kashawn Taylor
A Proper Shower

Dylan Harbison
July
Yes I made love to a man

Annabel Li
After the House Fire

Cheryl Chen
Cows in a Field

Amy DeBellis
Consider The Grave

Matthew Wood
Aufheben

I Echo
The One Who Walks into Open Frequency

Michael Boccardo
Elegy with Cigarettes & a Dead Movie Star

Brian Chan
the origins of rebirth

Chris Brunk
2:10 AM
How to Misread Poetry:
The Small Ones Count Too

Margaret Malochleb
Her Body, Transcribed
The Tower of Blue Horses

Ash Bowen
The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie

Leia K Bradley
Enough Is for Fools

Taylor Hamann Los
Ghosts in Late August

Charles Hensler
The Ruin
A Certain Time and Place

Gus Peterson
Frankenstein’s Creature won’t shut up about being
Ode to Nose Hair
Weary of the world, you play Starfield

Veronica Kornberg
Springtime in Prague

Brooks Lampe
Chair Sliding

Marko Capoferri
Self-Portrait with Elegy (IV)

Cam McGlynn
Turning and Turning and Turning

Guo Feifei
dreamscape in the supermarket aisle

Sofia Bagdade
Cusp

Jane Feinsod
Caldera

Talia Pinzari
CHRISTMAS PARTY, POST APOCALYPSE

Mary McSharry
Biology Lesson: Flight

Christy Ku
Monster Buffet

Catherine Redford
Return

Wren Donovan
Orange Often

Alix Perry
To Say Something of Weightlessness

Stephanie Karas
Autophobia

Jeffrey Kingman
Civil War Porch with Ant

Vanessa Y Niu
Traditional Fishing Methods along the Yellow Sea Coast

Sara J Grossman
Heatwave

Yoda Olinyk
They Say That by Writing Metaphors, You Can Hide from the Truth

Robert L Penick
Page

Cecelia Hagen
Parakeet

Emma Rockenbeck
Art