AQR Vol. 40, No. 1 & 2, Winter/Spring 2024
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About the cover and photographer
A Pickwick crocus pokes through coarse spring snow in a garden in Kodiak, Alaska. © 2024 Marion Owen
Marion Owen is a Kodiak, Alaska, photographer, video creator, writer, and master gardener. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and venues, including The Nature Conservancy, Better Homes & Gardens, TIME, Audubon, and Smithsonian Magazine. Owen is a co-author of Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul and her website is GardenersCoach.com.
Table of Contents
STORIES
The Shed, Erin Cecilia Thomas
Girl , Christian Kiefer
Oil Boy, Will Richter
Things That Must Be Written (at the End of an Affair), Sam Ruddick
Gershwin’s Ghost, Jerome Charyn
Simone de Beauvoir Is Living on Mars, Mary Grimm
The Celestra Variations, John Searcy
Unsuitable Things, Carolyn Zaikowski
The Cave, Rebecca Turkewitz
Object Conversion, Jessica Powell
ESSAYS
Mother Matter , Miel Sloan
Love Dogs , Sammie Downing
Adalimumab, Heather Aruffo
K, Mara Finley
Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?, Christopher Citro
Who Are You?, Jesse Lee Kercheval
Triptych [Crocodile, Duck, Brown Bear], Samantha Libby
A Genealogy with Trees, Mary Peelen
POEMS
Now, Maxine Scates
Hineni, Jehanne Dubrow
At the End, There Is Always a House, Sara Eliza Johnson
Close Your Eyes, Jeanne Wagner
Mount Madonna’s Last White Deer, Jeanne Wagner
The Pope’s Canaries, Heather Treseler
Heron, Heather Treseler
My First American Sonnet, Margaret Galey
At the BIA Office, Mistee St. Clair
Social Security Asks Whether I’ve Ever Been Married, Jackie Craven
Shopping on eBay for Laika Memorabilia, Ciaran Berry
Belonging , James Ciano
The Water Bearer, Yerra Sugarman
Territorial Waters, Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
The Northern Hemisphere’s Winter Sky ,Rachel Morgan
The Domestic Sphere, Farah Peterson
Visitation, Sharon Hashimoto
The Afterlife, Michael Waters
Transmigration, Oksana Maksymchuk
Orchard of Years, Doug Ramspeck
Deer in Headlights, Michael Meyerhofer
Son ,Naomi Shihab Nye
Ode to Darnel (Ode to the Crocus), Carey Salerno