In this issue, Leslie Doyle’s “Life Jacket” features a former librarian turned life jacket tester. And Bruce Springsteen!
David Ishaya Osu catalogs his memories of things celestial and mundane, and of life in Lagos and elsewhere, in “Wander.”
And Leona Sevick ruminates on the maternal side of a scorpion in two poems beginning with “Scorpling.”
This issue features images by prize-winning photographer Neil Rick. Based in Tennessee, Rick grows flowers and then photographs them, overlaying the photos but doing no post-production altering.
Neil Rick is a gardener and photographer in Tennessee. He grows flowers and then photographs them, overlaying the photos but doing no post-production altering. His images have won multiple prizes at American Rose Society Meetings in Tennessee and Kentucky, including Best Novice at a national ARS meeting in 2019 and “King of Photography” at a 2022 show in Bowling Green, KY.