My heart
Sarah Beck Mather
Category: growth (Issue No. XI)
Indira Fernando
Indira Fernando
Poetry Contributor
Indira (she/they) is a proud queer, immigrant, woman of colour who enjoys writing, reading and taking on more work than they can handle. She writes poetry to help process and document moments of growth, pain, joy and confusion, and occasionally they show it to people.
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Tony Press
Tony Press
Poetry Contributor
Tony Press tries to pay attention. Sometimes he does. His story collection, Crossing the Lines, was published by Big Table. He claims 2 Pushcart nominations, 12 years in a single high school classroom, and 25 criminal trials. The San Francisco Bay appears daily, outside his window.
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growth
Contents
ISSN 2642-0104 (print)
ISSN 2641-7693 (online)
Editor’s Letter
Founding Editor, Juliette Sebock
Poetry
The Particular Tilt of the Earth (at this time of year) Margaret King
to grow roots in coffee dirt Madalena Daleziou
Redwood, horizontal Tony Press
Putting in the Garden Jody Burke-Kaiser
Balloon Strings Rebecca Harmon
Tending the Garden Sonia Beauchamp
Fiction
Tigers and Old Furniture Vinayak Singh437 Wilson Street (A Brick Story) Zach Murphy
Creative Nonfiction
Grounding Lin LentineVisual Art
Creekside Impressions Kevin Browne
Marsh life in Spring Kevin Browne
Cover Image
Micropoems
In the leadup to growth, we shared a series of micropoems across social media:
Roselle Farr
Roselle Farr
Photography / Visual Art Contributor
Roselle Farr is a UK based photographer, who has previously had photographs published in Nightingale & Sparrow – Growth issue, FERAL – Art issue, and Acropolis Journal – Moon issue. Her love for art and being creative started from a young age and was inspired by her mum. She enjoys capturing the world and sharing it on her Instagram page @rosellemarie_photos
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Time Keeps Going
Dream Big (cover)
Below The Water Line (cover)
Below The Water Line 2
Dream
Encounter
Jelly Fish
Life’s Obstacles
Pushing Through
Redwood, horizontal
Redwood, horizontal
Tony Press
Where does the fallen tree go,
and why? Is it driven away,
branded like Hester?Perhaps it takes 80 to Tahoe
then angles north
to reside
beside
its sister,
Fallen Leaf Lake.And when the tree is fallin’, fallin’,
do we keep callin’, callin’ it back again,
or do the echoes of the Beatles
sadden us this time –
the jolting news
of John Lennon
shot and killed –
which I learned
as I sat alone
watching a dumb football game
my kids already asleepForty years ago.
Fallen trees.
Felled giants.
Faded love.
Where do they go?
Into our hearts.
If we let them.Rebecca Harmon
Rebecca Harmon
Poetry Contributor
Rebecca Harmon is a recent graduate from Utah State University. Besides writing, she also loves to dance, sing, act, hammock with her husband, and eat copious amounts of popcorn. Her main goal in life is to inspire people for good.
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