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Silence

Published: 2026-05-09

We hope this issue will be a companion to you in the stillness. May these wrestled words written in the secret places attune your heart to hear the whispers of God in your own times of solitude.

Works in this issue:

    I. The Dark

  • Night Swimming
    by David Pitcher
  • 17-Year Cicadas
    by Rachel Landrum Crumble
  • Moonrise
    by David Anderson
  • Moonless
    by Ray Smith
  • Catching Silence
    by Sarah Dixon Young

    II. The Discomfort

  • Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
    by Megan Willome
  • I'll Take Words for a Thousand, Alex
    by Heather Cadenhead
  • Isaac
    by Emma McCoy
  • Selah
    by Abbi Bodager
  • A Holy Cue
    by Mark Gaspar
  • Spring Morning
    by Dawn Paoletta
  • The Sparrow
    by Meredith Chester
  • Lament of a Weathered Vessel
    by Molly Graham

    III. The Middle

  • a kind of emptiness
    by Eliza Coco
  • Villanelle in Early March
    by Eileen Berry

    IV. The Meeting

  • Benediction
    by Renee Kalagayan
  • The Metronome Joins Me
    by Cameron Miller
  • Praise for a God Who Takes Notes
    by Julie Sumner
  • fleeting flowers
    by Ollie Burgess
  • The Monarch
    by John C. Mannone
  • Gethsemani
    by Liz Moss
  • The Nature of Light
    by Sharon Rhyne

    V. The Divine

  • The unshrineable
    by Jaslyn Thienbunlertrat
  • Gardening time
    by Jaslyn Thienbunlertrat
  • Night Poem
    by Laura Kauffman
  • What mercy tastes like
    by Maria L. Mecham
  • Sanctuary
    by Elle Rosamilia
  • The Burr of God
    by L.B. Blackwell

    VI. The Dawn

  • An Ode to Silence
    by Colin Sandberg
  • Silence Beneath the Hill
    by September Santiago
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