Issue XIII
June 2025
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
Lana Hechtman Ayers Two Poems
Ed Brickell Two Poems
Sarah Browning Flash Floods
Sarah B. Cahalan After the Stranding
Lorraine Carey Splinters
Julie Choffel Two Poems
Lynne Ellis Dream House
Molly Fisk Two Poems
Adam Grabowski Juvenilia
Kari Gunter-Seymour Lately Everything is Too Hardhanded
Holly J. Hughes Uprising in the Skagit
Nas Jolaade Quiet Haibun
Claire Jean Kim Still Life of Woman with Flowers
Julia Lisella After Carrie Mae Weems' Photograph The Edge of Time
Judith Skillman Two Poems
Elinor Ann Walker Haunt Like This
Jane Zwart Two Poems
Remembering Jayne Marek
Jed Myers
Risa Denenberg On Losing a Friend
Jayne Marek If One Can Speak Seriously of the Sublime
Art
