Volume XXV, Number 4: December 2023
Haiku — page 23
purple heart
the shadows of birds
returning home
Mihan Han
Toronto, Canada
bleeding sunrise
I mourn another
fetus with her
Crystal Simone Smith
Durham, North Carolina
folding its wings
a crane settles
into paper
Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, Massachusetts
nevertheless
a mother
stillborn
Meera Rehm
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
no one knew
what she wanted
red spray of gladiolas
Mimi Ahern
San Jose, California