• Soundings

    Rachel Rinehart

    Winter 2024

    Suddenly, it is night
    and the technician
    is holding not a wand
    but her leather marks
    and plummet.

    Still, we see only static,
    only mist roiling
    over the horizon,
    where maybe you are

    a soft light in shadows.
    Row closer, my child,
    let me kiss the slip of you,
    your little body unmade
    in its making.

    Rachel Rinehart's poetry collection The Church in the Plains was selected by Peter Everwine as the winner of the 2016 Philip Levine Poetry Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in 2018. She lives in Grayson, Kentucky, with her husband and children.

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    Caki Wilkinson

     

    In which Caki Wilkinson personifies hope and muses, “Hope is a character and things are not going well for her. I was thinking about Emily Dickinson, like what is the 2020 version of Emily Dickinson’s ‘Hope is the thing with feathers?’. Definitely not a bird.”

    Letters, 1936-1977

    Tennessee Williams

    With a flood threatening Collinsville, Illinois, in July 2014, Francesca Williams scrambled to transport her father Dakin’s legal correspondence upstairs from her basement. As she deposited box after box in her living room, a handwritten note caught her eye. Francesca immediately recognized the stationery of New York’s legendary Hotel Elysée, and the penmanship of her uncle Tennessee Williams.

    The Company of Others

    Sara Freeman

    But even after we’d hung up, I could not dislodge Bertrand’s question. A jagged crumb at the back of my throat: Did I miss my mother? To miss someone suggests a past shared, a present remembered. I could think only of a half-dozen times Bertrand and I had talked about my mother in the decade of knowing one another.

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