Art: "Opening a Blind Eye" by Ronald Walker
Poetry: "Deconstructing" by Melissa McGeary
i sway in the breeze, billowing purple.
blades of grass caress my thighs,
like lost lovers supplicating
ancient goddesses.
head bent toward the sun,
i taste its warmth, inhale
its golden perfume–pine trees
and earth and honeysuckle.
honeybees dance upon my exhalations,
tickle my nose and drink my soul from my pores.
i wiggle my toes deeper into the earth,
settling–
consumed & consuming.
i think of you
in those quiet spaces
between waking
and dreaming,
but you
are just a dream,
drawn from the light
of imagined worlds.
Published April 10th 2026
Melissa McGeary is a New Jersey librarian who spends more time rearranging books than writing them. Her work explores longing and the blurred boundaries between reality and dreams. But mostly, she just hopes the printer stops jamming.
Mr. Walker is an artist living in the Sacramento area of California. He works in a style he calls “Suburban Primitive”. This style combines his intrest in the origins and functions of art along with life in the suburbs. He is far less interested in the visual depiction of reality and far more interested in showing life in the suburbs from an psychological, emotional and intellectual point of view. Walker has had more than 50 solo exhibits over the years and his work can be found in several private collections as well as The Morris Graves Museum of Art, The Siskiyou Musem of Art, The Museum of Northern California Art, The Museum of Wild and Newfounded Art, Consumnes River College, University of Central Missori, Laredo College, Imperial Valley College and Art City.