Spring 2017
Spring 2017
The Spring 2017 issue of Relief features a full—and we think beautiful—redesign. The issue expands on Relief’s signature of excellent poetry from around the world, including new poems from old friends like Laurie Klein and Julie L. Moore. Our CNF offerings are highlighted by Catherine Ricketts' harrowing “What My Brother Wore” and a new essay by Amy Peterson, whose 2017 memoir Dangerous Territory (Discovery House) has garnered much well-deserved attention. Finally, Sally Thomas' “Noise Like a Freight Train” will satisfy the literary fiction reader with its subtle power. And there are many other gems here you’ll be pleased to discover.
Daniel Bowman, Jr.
From the Editor's Desk
Poetry
Brennan Bestwick
Psalm
Lynn Domina
For Sharon Who Suggests Monkeys Chattered During the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ //
Seeking Forgiveness without Repentance, I Invite Cain into the Confessional
Michial Farmer
Eschatology
Randall Freisinger
Dickering with God
Jeffrey Galbraith
Lobster Through the Heavens
Charity Gingrich
Complaint, Comply, Compline–
Carrie Heimer
Ultrasound
The Family Waits for Her to Say Amen
Melissa Hite
Good Taste
Laurie Klein
From the Cuckoo Clock Room
Stone Coda
Guardian Products
Marjorie Maddox
Untitled
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Michelle McMillian-Holifield
Bless This Sky
Miscarriage
Andrew Miller
The Pears
The Fast
Devon Miller-Duggan
While I Am on the Mountain, Others' Children at Home Go into the Dark, Other Mothers Consume Their Young //
The Slow Salute
Terry Minchow-Proffitt
Good Friday
Julie L. Moore
Serpent Mound
Peebles, Ohio
Melissa Reeser Poulin
Fugue
David Rensberger
Parking Lot
The Intersection of Perpetual Left Turns
Debra Rienstra
Afterimage
Michal Remembers
Salome
Amie Sharp
On Prayer, or God in an Atom
In Praise of Migraines
Upon Franz Wright's Death I Learn He Shared a Birthday with My Father
Creative Nonfiction
Betsy K. Brown
Three Storms
John Ellis
Her, Deconstructed
Amy Peterson
Evidence of Failure
Catherine Ricketts
What My Brother Wore
Fiction
David Athey
Triptych for Rublev
Zoe Fowler
Holy Basil and Mountain Thyme
Sally Thomas
A Noise Like a Freight Train
From the blog
Chrysta Brown
I Scream, America
William Coleman
In Service of a Single Word
Jayne English
Sub[urban] Creation