Issue Reader – Vol. 2 No. 4
The Thimble Literature Journal is based on the belief that poetry is like armor. Like a thimble, it may be small and seem insignificant, but it will protect us when we are most vulnerable.
Vol. 2 No. 4
Spring 2020
Collage 1Editor's Note
Broken
After Rosemary Picked Up the Baby
every night after safia's death
MoonBlinde
Cartoon Logic
Barn Hinge
Nopalitos
Collage 2
Unicorn
Looking for a Way Around (after the Breeders)
Collage 4
Clapboard Houses in Late September Light
Dismember
For Will, at four
Observations at an Obligatory Dinner Party
Furious
Stippled
Temporary Home
Alone
A Group of Whales Is Called a Pod
Annabel Lee
Beach Driftwood
Pleasure
New Zealand Sister
Catch and Release (for Carl Kaucher)
When my mother swelled up from her medication
Old International
Oregon Winter
Mission
Upside Down, as if This Cup...
The Names of the Lost
Gone Fishing
Lightning Welk
Adaptation
Collage 3
The Crying Librarian
Trimming the Tree Alone
The Wedding Dance
Gail the Snail
Nirvana Bourbon
To a Cardinal
Six Annunciations
Patched
When She Was Good
A Resurrection: Poems Inspired by the Diaries of a Nineteenth-Century Schoolgirl, 1856–1857
Selections
Self-Portrait of Dating Mid-Twenties
To the Voice I Can't Break through
For the grandmother teaching children how to plant seeds in the community garden
Nothing is in its place. Everything is where it belongs.
Peppers and Onions