Issue XII
January 2025
Cover image by Faizan Adil
Dear Reader,
Bracken has always been about the woods and the shadows. It seems the sun’s light strikes us more forcefully when it filters through all those dark places.
The glowing trees in this issue’s cover image by Faizan Adil seem to hold a promise of some undiscovered magic. I often feel there’s something incantatory about poetry—that it creates a sense of ritual that dwells with loss but also offers hope.
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Poetry
Mike Bove Seasonal Variation
Mary Buchinger Two Poems
Jennifer Bullis Self-Portrait as Eve
Linda Hillman Chayes Lucky
Jean Anne Feldeisen New Jersey Pine Barrens
Ann Fisher-Wirth Today
Rebecca Foust Meyer Lemon
Michael Hettich The Ghost
Luci Huhn Naming It
Oleh Kotsarev / Jill Christensen If Only It Were Possible to Remember
Sati Mookherjee Two Poems
Lisa Marie Oliver Don’t Cut Your Hair
Kelly R. Samuels Two Poems
Shane Seely Two Poems
Brian Simoneau Two Poems
Cynthia White What Happened
Interview
“A Perpetual Process of Moving in and out of Balance”: A Conversation Between Sati Mookherjee and Jed Myers
Art
