Letter from the Editor
By John Hardberger
Blue Home
Victor Jimenez
Out of the Shade
By Meghan Sterling
O, my sun—you are already slanting your eyebrows
at me, furrowing in preparation for what’s coming.
Winter is a stone fox. Winter is a cruel master.
My sun will get weak as hair. I have seen babies
stronger. It will no longer hold up the sky with its
long feet or its bold yellow arms. I will be left to
pleasure myself in darkness, beneath a quilt, heavy
with the scent of my own salt. Just the other day
when feeling the light lowering I spread myself wide
beneath what heat was left, greedy for burning. Critics
compared Pollock to the sun, Krasner to a stunted thing
left in the shadow cast. An understory blight. A mere
woman. Of course, they didn’t see what was there—
they had stared so long at the sun, they had holes for eyes.
[1] Anne M. Wagner, “Lee Krasner as L.K.” Representations no. 25, Winter 1989 p 45.
Meghan Sterling
Meghan Sterling (she, her, they) is a queer/bi writer and mother. She has been published in Tahoma Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Rhino Poetry and others. Sick Letters from the Lovebed (Harbor Editions) is forthcoming in 2026. Poet laureate of Gardiner, Maine, read her work at meghansterling.com.
Victor Jimenez
Victor Jimenez has photographed an array of people, places, and things since 2015. He was gifted his first Nikon D3300 as a Christmas gift and has not been able to put it down since. He grew up on Long Island, photographed the beaches, and traveled to Manhattan to shoot photos of the architecture and people. His camera has been an extension of himself. He is lucky enough to travel and focus on his hobby, learning how to manipulate light and color, and create something new through a still photograph.
