Ruminate Magazine: Faith in Literature and Art

Editors Note

Poetry
Robert Morris Kennedy, Gnawing on my bones
Colleen S. Harris, Refrigerator Borealis
Elizabeth Carlson, Making Merit , Tea, 6AM
Jeffrey Alfier, Mapping the Migrant’s Shrine
Amanda McQuade, Ode to Your Spine, Stalled, Go West
Marsha L. Mentzer, The Nature of Mercy , Mirror Images
John Dreyer, Opening Night 
Jeffry C. Davis, Common Liturgy: A Broken Sonnet , Forgetting to Remember
Martha Krystaponis, To Turn a Terrycloth Slipper into Glass
Sargam Garg, Rich Winter
Megan Robinson, Consumer
Alohi Ae’a, eclipse
Sankar Roy, Reasons to Be Hopeful
Laura Solomon, The Ghost of Roy Sullivan Laments, The Cartographer’s Trauma Upon Waking

Fiction
Linda McCullough Moore, The Fourteen Steps
Grace Olson, He Does Not Know This
Stacy Barton, With Hollandaise
Christopher J. Gaumer, From Lenard Beesman, who Left the Classroom Behind

Nonfiction
Christine Jeske, Shower On

Art
Deanne Moulten, Disillusion, Prayer, In the Garden, Flamingo Fury, The Vine, Blue
Joshua Peters, Something She Finished
Joshua Perters, Red Door

Last Note  

Jeffrey Alfier
for Sonia Alvarado Soriano (1982-2007)

Marsha L. Mentzer

Kyrie eleison sung
in hushed whispers
wrongs and sins and pain
barely find utterance
in ancient word and melody

Marsha L. Mentzer

Martha Krystaponis