Fall 2022
Fall 2022
Relief’s 2022 issue includes a full color comic, poems about living with loss, and stories that highlight and investigate the human condition and also the antidote thereof. The process of selecting these works was one which allowed our staff to discover more about ourselves, our perceptions of the world, and our views on humanity, and we are delighted to share these works with readers.
Daniel Bowman, Jr.
From the Editor's Desk
Poetry
Andrew Hudson Barter
Psychopomp & Circumstance
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
My Heresy Poem
Anthony Butts
The Four Seasons
Twilight Times
Scott Cairns
This Cedar Thicket My Acquittal
No Stranger
Lauren Camp
A Gray Corner Full of Light
Benediction
Amy Frykholm
Prophet
Adam J. Gellings
Suppose
Tremor
Luke Taylor Gilstrap
First Pascha
Lily Greenberg
God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise
Othersnake is Speaking from the Terrarium Glass
Marci Rae Johnson
Galien River County Park
Joshua Jones
Theodicy
Tomb of the Diver, Paestum
Debra Kaufman
Shadows
Andrew Lansdown
The Remarkable Maples, Kyoto
Al Maginnes
Between X-Rays
Clay Matthews
Psalm [I try to practice humility]
M. B. McLatchey
Calendar Plans
Devon Miller-Duggan
You Get Yourself Broken Again
Tired of Being Underground, I Insisted We Use the Paris Bus System
Amy Nemecek
A Grief Preserved
Hilesh Patel
A prayer for smoke and whispers
Peter Prizel
Miriam’s Well
Zamzam’s Well
Alfonso Sasieta
Neither the Activists nor the Liturgists Want my Ode
Andrew Sorokowski
Judgment
Julie Sumner
Abide
Via Negativa
Pamela Wax
The Angel Came to You as Picasso
Diana Woodcock
To Die with Life
Creative Nonfiction
Kate Chupp
Clueless
Emily Dexter
A Nameless Malady
Chris Farrar
Kaddish
Spencer Lane Jones
Cease and Desist
Julie Salmon Kelleher
A Meditation on Brigit of Kildare
Slayd Sasser
Sins of My Father
Kerstin Schulz
An Ant in the Desert
Robert Vivian
Love is Clean Money
Fiction
Heather Bartos
Raining Like it Means It
Gary D. Schmidt
The Waterfall
Sally Thomas
The Blackbird
Comics
Kendall Lyons
Two comics