Art: "Walk Not In Mourning But Remember" by Lea Wülferth
Poetry: "The Devil's Juncture" by Eva Alter
I.
I died three Marches ago.
My father felt it,
700-mile soul fracture—
Lineage nearly cleaved,
Piecemeal.
That chemical frontier, the devil’s juncture—
I died along with the roadkill,
Traded its eyes for mine.
Woke up bearing its teeth.
II.
The next March, a labyrinthian interlude
Between Russian nesting years—
Beady derealization, someone not
My own, her puzzle marrow.
Ghostmemory in the gaps—
Synapses melted into radio static.
I learned to displace
The echo of my death
Into defunct autobigraphica—
III.
A march ago, sunlight
Waited out the gravesite.
Fourteen years and finally
A tick. Dawn’s teeth broke
Against the miracle of a pardon.
The near oblivions shrieked their distance.
Our eternity certain as
The collision that forged
the Appalachians.
IV.
In weeks, March
Will arrive. Her gnawing teeth
Snap behind the mourning.
She wills me to remember
The soul fracture, its displacement, its pardon.
How can I bear it? I am
Consumed by it; I am sick by it—
A fifteen-year death pact. Child
And aberration. Bound at the root.
Published June 27th 2025
Eva Alter is an emerging poet from the Southeast. Her work focuses on nature, memory, decay, and rebirth.
Lea Wülferth is a Brooklyn-based artist born and raised in Germany by an American and a German parent. She explores themes of freedom, identity, memory, and truth(s) on a personal and socio-political level across different media. She has been shaped by living in – or between – two different cultures, having grown up “half American, half German.” In addition to searching for her own center and grappling with different parts of her history and identity, she likes looking at other stories and issues from different perspectives. Her poems and artwork have appeared in multiple publications, and her paintings and mixed media art have been exhibited at the A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, The Living Gallery and Pratt Institute, among other places. As a partner at YouTooCanWoo in Williamsburg and managing member of Bed-Stuy based art collective and studio Maison Depot, she works to cultivate a supportive environment for unique creative voices and build a community of artists. She holds a master’s degrees from the University of Oxford, England, and the Sorbonne in Paris, France.