The Shore Issue 25 — Spring 2025

Dana Wall
Theory of Half-Things

Doug Ramspeck
Winter Harvest
Awakening
The Forgetful River
Mother Speaks of Winter Fires

Sarah Carson
How to Love the Man Who’ll Rape You
I Wanted to Tell You I Climbed the Water Tower to Bring This Poem Back Down with Me

Jaiden Geolingo
Contrapuntal for My Dead Loves
Boyhood Requiem

Rachel Nelson
Our Bodies
A Confederate Soldier Causes an Enslaved Woman to Drop Her Meal

Mary Paterson
Incessant Mornings

Beth Oast Williams
Geometry
What Wood We’ve Become

Sally Rosen Kindred
To Dorothea Tanning
Letter to the Inside-Bird

Anthony Frame
Come In, Houston, or Everything I Know I Learned from the Guitar Solo in Tori Amos’ “Doughnut Song” (Live in Frankfurt, Germany, 1998-06-23)

Michele Santamaria
Oberwolfach, a Love Poem
Technicolor Sonnet

Susan L Leary
On Sundays, I Do Laundry

N D Allison
Erasure

Stuart Greenhouse
Voyager to Voyager

Nicole Callihan
The Visits

Helen Gu
Rain

Rucha Virmani
2nd January, the Airport

Ellis Purdie
Elegy for a Biologist

Carson Wolfe
Hell for Certain

Caroline Cahill
In the Dark

Christopher Locke
Declarations

Disha Trivedi
Martha’s Vineyard

V Joshua Adams
Problem of Fiction

Radian Hong
Future

Le Wang
Hunting Season

Nadine Hitchiner
When this February shall find me

Lara Chamoun
Pet Wasp

Bex Hainsworth
Fimbulwinter

Elizabeth Wing
Rasputin asks for a second cup of wine

Anne Haven McDonnell
Ceremony

Lee Potts
A pedagogy for the rain

Alastair Morrison
Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus

Tom Blake
Love in the Anthropocene

John Bradley
From the Empire of Rusting Nails

Minnie Wu
Times I Have Shivered

Shannon Hardwick
For a spell like fireball, the target is the point in space where the ball of fire erupts

M Cynthia Cheung
Two-Headed Dog

Binoy Zuzarte
Preservation Efforts

Jeremiah Moriarty
Season 6

Michael Lauchlan
Landing

Kate Kobosko
Bathroom Break I-95

Sharon Denmark
Metamorphosis

Jennifer A Howard
Art