Poetry
Lemons
She had lemons/who crooned to her,/lemons that smoked unfiltered cigarettes,/lemons that rolled down mountains to be near her.
Águila del desierto
Because he found/brother, cousin/facedown. Because he lost/home like bones lose/flesh.
Winter's Carol
What shock to find a child/can transform you. Once, the Lord in flesh was like this:/strangler fig and tentacled.
Immortality Is (Im)Material
Juvenescent jellyfish live to infinity in the mega-flooded/garden of the Mediterranean, those raised, sedimented beds first/planted by the Atlantic.
Dear Mother
Oh mother, once upon a time, mother. I owe you something/but what? And what of me here in this white room with the ash/scattered and the rocker stationed at the window.
Fish Eye
Arah Ko's winning poem poem "Fish Eye" originally appears in Issue No. 61: Beginnings and Endings
Human Condition
Nicholas Samaras's poem "Human Condition" originally appears in Issue No. 60: At Sea.
Lake Harriet, 2005
Karen Kubin's poem "Lake Harriet, 2005" originally appeared in Ruminate's Issue 53: Shelter.
Praise on Pi Day
Lisa Rosenberg's poem "Praise on Pi Day" originally appeared on Ruminate's Issue 53: Shelter.
For the Millions
Oh Best Beloved, a poem can’t pull / anyone back from death / into life, but it can pull the dead / into a poem.
The Two-Body Problem
Brandon Thurman's poem "The Two-Body Problem" appears in Issue No. 56: Expression.
Our Hands Are Bowls of Dust
Clemonce Heard's poem, Our Hands Are Bowls of Dust won second place in the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and is featured in Issue 49: Mattering.
When the Good Lord Willed the Creek to Rise
Charnell Peters's poem appears in Issue 42: Forming One Another
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.