Emerge Literary Journal: 2020, Issue 14
Editor’s Note
Poetry
“Chickadee,” Steve Merino
“Stepping Sequentially Through Time,” Elizabeth Mathes
“shamayim” & “catherine of siena,” Madison Zehmer
“Growing Through the Sidewalk,” Gerry Stewart
“Hyperbole,” Skye Wilson
“Measurement,” Amanda McLeod
“Last Night I Dreamed You,” Rich Larson
“Airplane Familiarity,” Julianna May
“Sonnet of Jeff Buckley’s ‘Mojo Pin’,” Sophia Bruce
“We Walk Away Like Nothing” & “River Streams,” Shome Dasgupta
“A portrait from before you fell in & out of love” & “Flight,” Noreen Ocampo
“Dodona,” Elizabeth Bluth
“Practice Room,” Ivy Aloa Robb
“If Life Means Life Means Life Means Life // Voluntary Apnea,” Kanika Ahuja
“West Aster Drive,” Nymphish
“Quarantine Excursion,” Maria S. Picone
“Canada” & “Love Note,” Farley Egan Green
“That O’Keefe on the Wall,” Lynn Finger
Esperanza Corner
“Two Brothers,” Hannah Storm (Trigger Warning – Sexual Assault)
“The Evening News,” Lindsey Heatherly (Trigger Warning – Suicidal Ideation)
“Routine,” Lindsey Heatherly
“Observations,” SM Colgan (Trigger Warning – Self-Harm)
“Affliction,” SM Colgan (Trigger Warning – Self-Harm)
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Prose
Rosary, Melissa Boles
You Never Wanted Kids, Veronica Klash
Why the river?, Zach Murphy
Escape Velocity, Anna Spence
Bridge of Laughter, Marc Littman
Alluring Imperfections, Roger Li
It Could Always Be Like This, Meagan Lucas
No Goodbyes, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Peaches in Alabama, Charlotte Hamrick
A Lifetime Learned in One Night, Jessica Frelow
Slipping, Tommy Dean
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