Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine, Winter 2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poetry
Primavera Imperatives 5
An Ode to Spring 8
Observing Senior Math Analysis 9
America is an old billboard 12
Head Up 13
The Signal 14
What Dustin Begets 16
a tuft of fur 17
In the Field 21
Pearls 22
The Parsonage 23
Saturday Noodle 24
Becoming Bonsai 25
Saturn’s Reign 27
Dreamer 28
Writing 29
Atlas 32
Chilly 37
The Great Inventions 38
When I am 40 and you are 4-39
Interview, Safe Passage 40
folding socks 41
Prose
My Northern Perspective 6
“9797” 18
Ask the Brook Trout 20
Night in Gethsemane 33
Visual Arts
Light in the Darkness-Cover, 7
“6” 10
Supernova 26
“11” 30
Contributors-42
Primavera
Imperatives
MOLLY STOVER
Wear the worn ones that are well-loved and grass-stained. Care for the
worms as the rains have left them unearthed. Be gentle with all but the
mud as you reacquaint yourself with a long-awaited rebirth. Remember the
guileless child with eyes wonder-wide. Listen to the new birds sing days-old,
age-old songs. Turn your face to the sun but don’t stare. It isn’t polite - to
Iris or Helios. Bless the heavens, above and below, for the mystery of what’s
suspended between and what grows the first green from the yester-grays.
Cast lots on the first blooms. Mind the too-soons. Pan’s Syringa, below and
among, now within mortal reach. Gather her spoils with mud-bathed,
newly-earthen hands. Sing your days-old, age-old refrains. Draw them out.
Sustaining refrains are meant for spring.
Love the living things.
Marian E. Wright Writing Center Spring Poetry Contest
Spring Prompt, 1st Place
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