Ruminate Magazine

Editor's Note - Benedictio  

Poetry
Jennie Mejan, Frankenblessed
Patrick Baron, Caresses of Divisions
Brett DeFries, At the Waco Baptist Church, Litany With Braille
Michael M. Marks, anger like Billy’s bedspread
Jason Jonker, Ms. Vredevoogd, Calvin Christian Jr. High
Diane Tucker, Recipe, The Sudden Rain
Josh Kalscheur, When the Communion Wafer Fell to the Ground, At Jesus Station, Purgatory  
Aby Kaupang, self-pectations , heavier light leaves, A loner refurbishes some tangle in the loveseat
Jonathan Larson, sun step
P.D. Gray, goldfish
Stephanie Walker, Manna, Among My Father’s Belongings

Interview
Chris Miner, Self-Interview of a Video Artist

Fiction
Linda McCullough Moore, Crows and Ravens
Lawrence Dorr, Thirdonesacharm
Daniel Gallik, His Angst Said, “Depression And Daughters Cannot Be Dismissed Esoterically.”
Tony Woodlief, The Grace I Know

Art
Latifah Al-Attas, spectroscopy, room
Christopher Miner: Self Portrait, Auction, Burning Bush, Best Decision
Jack Maxwell, Jacob's Dream Sunrise, Ascending and Descending: Jacob's Dream

Patrick Baron
 

Walls that play host
    to curled up words
that recall wildflowers

Josh Kalscheur
 

 Like AA meetings, I’ll begin each sentence
   with what I’m ashamed of
and the things that I love: the arched back
   of a married woman,
the grind and drive of Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song,
   how a Lexus can change your life.

Aby Kaupang
 

How tonight is language anything but tincture. punctured? Lovely too—the loner refurbishes some tangle in a loveseat.  A river forced under returns. It wants to undrown.  To iIntroduces its milkteeth.  So invisible, the clay hours groan.   

Stephanie Walker