Issue Reader – Vol. 7 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. 7 No. 4
Spring 2025
Blue LinesEditor's Note
Small Protections
Getting to Yes
2 years of therapy
How to Paint the Sky
Light as a Feather
At the Ending
Backwards
No Matter What
Look, Look
Toast
Sanctuary
Keeping Hope Alive
Scraps
[untitled]
The Case for Planting Lantanas
While We Wait
Something
Movement
The Riding Lesson
Aphrodite or, Ode to Lube
Six Names
Great Light
If you were to ask what I believe, I might tell you yo-yo string
Early October, White Aurora
Silent Scene
stellasarcoma
Midwest, Early Winter
Punching Out, 1995
The Wonderful World of Mary Blair
Roald Landscape
Ellen Bass Has Great Hair
Detour
Complimentary. Drink.
Coral-Lime Seascape
My Mother’s 105th Birthday
Home-work or Bone-work
Mom Can't Remember
Portrait with Widower
Desert Rose Joy
petrichor
Condiments on the Shelf Long After the Expiration Date
ESL
Hotel California
When Ruth recounted how
inheritance
Easter
Four Works (as a collection)
Late
Pero Yo ya no Soy Yo*
Shadowdog Catches the Number
I'm OK
This New Country
Huckleberries
Lace
Seedpod
In the pantheon for a day
Foraging
Miracles
Nature is perhaps a hand which comes carefully arranging
Her Upper Arms
Weird Bread
딸기 (Dalki)
Portable Landscape
Tendrils
City beehives
Spy Wednesday
Archaeological Landscape
Fossil
Imagine a Bird
They say the Devil
January Moon
Latex Allergy
The Myth of Being Human
Catching Z's
Second-Hand Grace