Issue XI
June 2024
Cover image by Katrina Wolfe
Dear Reader,
It moves me that this eleventh issue of Bracken has been born, and I’m stirred to see how Bracken has evolved since its emergence in March 2016. This issue is one more turn in that evolution, akin, I think, to a further development in a human life. We find our purposes, and how to serve them, only as we grow, over time—coming into one’s own, it’s been called. It inevitably involves adapting to challenges—cultivating the gifts we discover under the press of our conditions.
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Poetry
Rebecca Brock I Will Always Be Heading Somewhere
Amanda Marie Chiado Hell & Flowers
Lynne Ellis Shore Body
Gabriel Furshong Hundred-Year Flood
Jana-Lee Germaine At the Drive-In Volcano
Kari Gunter-Seymour Two Poems
Kasey Jueds Limestone, Shale, Flint
Abbie Kiefer I’ve Learned to Accept
Lance Larsen Two Poems
Mercedes Lawry April’s Muddled Thoughts
Erin Pesut citizen of the woods
Heidi Seaborn Fish Story
Elizabeth Vignali Two Poems
Art
