Art: "The Bicycle Collector" by Rich Spang
Poetry: "contract" by Josh Anthony
we spend all day in
July measuring out the dry wall
the strange reverse way we cut
to account for sockets and anomalies
he shows me how to mud and
sand which makes me ache
and—almost finished—he realizes we
forgot the insulation in a small
corner and unhinges the way
grown men do with loud
voices and a smallness but
me i’m slight and can fit
my body between the walls
and find a way to place
the protection even in that
dark and closed space
Published August 3rd 2023
Nathaniel Grayson is a graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi, pursuing an MA in Fiction. He is a current poetry editor for Product magazine and a reader for the Mississippi Review. His poem, “Some Distant Island,” will be published in the April edition of The Dewdrop.
Rich Spang is a retired electronics technician who began his photography with a Brownie camera, then an Instamatic, a series of 35mm cameras and now shoots digital as well as from his collection of film cameras. When not at home editing Rich can be found on the street, in the fog or in the wetlands capturing what he sees. Rich’s work has been in 1889 Magazine, Reservoir Road Literary Review, Burning Word Literary Journal, Light Space and Time Gallery, Beaver Magazine, Wild Roof Journal. Instagram: @spangrich.