Issue Reader – Vol. 5 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. 5 No. 4
Spring 2023
Fish in the CloudsEditor's Note
For Robert O'Donnell
Flash Flood Warning
First Dog
Judas Tree
Needles
Precipitate
(I went
Geisbach Ottobeuren
A Simple Question of Measurement
A Recovery
"Robert Died" (a text message)
The Magic of Reading
East Dallas, Texas
The Four Stages of Flight
Why I Admire Armadillos
Passports
Littoral
Places I Have Cried for You
To Live Deliberately
When I Was a Kid
Silhouettes
Theseus in Old Age
Little Rivers
The Grammar of Tragedy
Dear Paul
Bird
Instructions for a Young Archeologist*
Have You Taken Your Mad Woman Pills Today?
Let's Get Dressed
That was the day the blue boulders landed
December Again
Garlic and Apples
Sewing Machine
A Crapshoot
Never Truly
Patterns
On Surviving Together