Literature & Poetry
POEM: A New Hampshire River by D. Walsh Gilbert
A river's current gives a sense of rebirth, negating possible feelings of loss.
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Literature & Poetry
Beauty in language and the art of storytelling.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: The Dogwood + 7 poems by Elise Powers
8 poems, each exploring the intersections of memory, tenderness, and the sacred ordinary.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Short Story: The Reader Digests
A short fiction piece about the self-mythology of a mediocre man.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About
“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee
My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: When the Body Breaks
When the Body Breaks” explores physical illness as a spiritual unraveling that nonetheless makes space for reverence. This poem exists in the tension between alienation and awe, asking what it means to carry pain with dignity and whether the soul’s transformations might be holy in their fragility
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: Corpuscules in Corners
I want to work back to that intuition I had of the infinity of the self— that this world is bursting at its seams and margins with the divine. Is coming home to oneself like turning from ashes and ashes to dust in corners?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: End Times
The unending nature of infinities and forever that repeats over and over through the cosmos and nature's laws in the destiny of a small soul's minute journey through the vastness of space and the immensity of time.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: 4 Poems by Barbara Siegel Carlson
The natural world teaches lessons about human life and its expansion into the spiritual and metaphysical. Winter branches and onions become metaphors for larger truths. Art and music are also inspirations to deeper understanding.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: Vocational
"Vocational" is a micro-narrative that explores the depth of memory particularly through the lens of religion. This poem hopes to have achieved that religion and the spiritual life permeates every choice and is able to be arrived back to after a lapse, while also grappling with the middle.