Willow Springs 96
Fall 2025
Poetry
DAISY BASSEN
To the Woman on the Zoom Taking Meat off the Barbecue While We Discuss Proposals
BRUCE BOND
Clouds
Rain
CHELSEA B. DESAUTELS
A Minor Lonely Emergency
DANTE DI STEFANO
Late Twentieth Century Suburban Childhood Unsonnet
I Wrote on the Blackboard About the Moon Halved by the Arms of God
What I Know from the Leftover of Our World
JOHN GALLAHER
Elegy for the Old Philosophy
SETH HAGEN
Lacrosse
Pas Seul
Silver Trombone
BOB HICOK
Ostriches
Prophecy
Taking Turns
A Visitor’s Sense of the Place
WILLIE JAMES
I Wanted a Little Candlelight in the Garden
DAVID KIRBY
JoJo DiMatta
Kamila and I Go to the Opera
When Your Friend’s Sandwich Is Better Than Yours and He Hands You Half
ANNA LEIGH KNOWLES
Aubade Ending with Broken Turtle Shells
Winter
SANDRA MCPHERSON
Turn at the Old Pine with the Jigsaw Bark
What I Give My Thirsty Scarecrow
MEGAN MERCHANT
In the Lost House,
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI
Muster Station
JOSH MYERS
My Eucharist
NINA C. PALÁEZ
Landscape with Redactions
RACHEL RIX
Night Letters
LUKE SAWCZAK
Kangaroo
MARTHA SILANO
Portrait of Apple Cinnamon Mush, Chobani Yogurt Drink, and BiPap
ZACH SIMON
American Soil
Catch and Release
LAURA STOTT
Flood
COREY ZELLER
It Was Like That, and After That, It Was Like That, Only All the Time
NonFiction
MARIN SARDY
A Bag of Chips
Fiction
Diminution
ANDREW FARKAS
Mythos of the Glaziers
Currency
KASUMI PARKER
Haunting
Interview
KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Willow Springs Issue 96 features prose and poetry from Bob Hicok, Martha Silano, Patricia Henley, an interview with Kathleen Flenniken, and more!
