Issue Reader – Vol. 5 No. 2
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. 5 No. 2
Fall 2022
Little Gray CloudEditor's Note
Portraits
Spring Is Like a Pebble Lodged in My Shoe
Shopping for Home
Tenements
Slow to Anger
Sourdough
Loose Lips
Juicy Fruit
Umbilical
As I Descend, My Mother Calls a Taxi
The Enigma of the Hour
Good Fridays 1989-2022/On the Death of a Friend
night/shade
Savored
Small Pieces
girl. arm full of stars.
Lady in a blue gown
Fuck Your Open Concept
an echo in arrhythmia
Found
Nobody
Beef Noodle
Smoke Alarms
Acknowledgements
In The Living Room
Adam Means Red Earth
Palm:
Black Sun
Ode to the Crow
Mary’s New Era
Time is Not Real, but Scientists Say It Makes No Difference to Us
Cat, Before and After
Chicken of the Woods
Catstellation
I Heard About Your Accident
On Getting Older
Stealing Beauty
Stained Glass Octopus
Tooth Fairy
Little Fists Hollow
Poems from “Corporeal”: A Collection in Progress
End of War
Heartburn
Summer's Lease
The Sweetness that Stays
Chambers
Siblings, 1972
The Dress
Hiking Before the Night Shift
Poetry Elf
Help Me
Fainting Spell
Halfbreed Helene Goes to the Beach
Pressing Leaves
After the Fugue Years
Childhood Home
ELIXIR FOR A PERPETUAL CARETAKER
when grief calls
Refound and Lost Again
Etymology of an Apology
The Vibration of Joy