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An angel critiques Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew and the Angel
by D. S. Martin
Like a hind crying for water
by Yehiel E. Poupko
ALS: How it was
by Marda Messick
Final exam
by Paul Willis
The wren’s lament
by Sarah Rossiter
Madonna on her countless portraits
by Mimi Jennings
Serpent
by James Owens
Maundy Thursday, Plague Year
by Bonnie Thurston
Meet me
by Susan Delaney Spear
Easter, 2020
Carrot
by Michael Waters
Sleet
by Bryana Joy
The pond
In church
by D. Keith Naylor
This Lent
by J. Barrie Shepherd
Moccasin
by Warren L. Molton
Epiphany
by Marjorie Maddox
A Doubting Thomas sort-of sonnet
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Armor of light
by David C. Killeen
Out of the depths
by Charles Hughes