Of Love (not in)

By Shoshana Tehila Surek

Issue 41 • Spring 2020 • Poetry

Prescribed fire for laden butterfly. Monarch landslides engulfing tongues.

I also long for thee.

Knotted perennial for perfect mooring. Vessel held by eyelid, here.

Here, she says. Moor.

Shoshana Tehila Surek

Shoshana Tehila Surek is a first-generation American and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. She received her MA in Creative Writing and her MFA in Fiction and Poetry from Regis University in Denver. Her fiction, poetry, and essays can be read or are forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Carve Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, Malahat Review, Vestal Review, Cease, Cows, 3Elements Review, and f(r)iction Magazine. In 2017, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was a 2019 Curt Johnson Prose Award finalist. More of her work can be found at www.ShoshanaSurek.com.

Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson is an artist who lives in Chicago and primarily makes decorative kites for a living while also pursuing his interests in mono-printmaking, making kinetic sculpture using old erector set parts and creating faux postage stamps that he designs, prints, perforates, applies to envelopes and mails throughout the world.