Willow Springs 95
Spring 2025
Poetry
JOHN BLAIR
Ash Wednesday, Leaving New Orleans
PAOLA BRUNI
SEAN CHO A.
Act 3/Sonnet #49
NICHOLAS ELLIS
Jade/Birds
Jonathan Fink
When You Least Expect It
JAMES GRABILL
Inhalation
ALBERT GOLDBARTH
After the Cancer Diagnosis, She Asked to Dance
a Last Swan Lake
Astronomy
Black Holes Come in Two Varieties
Oxygen on Mars
This Couple
Thermodynamics
“The two sons had fallen gravely ill and their father
followed the ancient superstition of changing
their names to fool the Angel of Death”
HEIKKI HUOTARI
My Bête Noire Right or Wrong
J. B. LAWRENCE
Varnish Clam
ZACHARY LUNDGREN
Forget Me
YESSICA MARTINEZ
Lift
BENJAMIN PALOFF
Amateur Astronomy 3
ANDREW PAYTON
Wild Nettle
SAMUEL PICCONE
Plastic Flowers
NICHOLAS PIERCE
Sonnet 32
MELANIE TAFEJIAN
Preservation
MASON WRAY
Nobody Falls Like They Used To
JONATHAN WONG-HAYDEN
Eulogy for World’s Best Restaurant
ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG
A Good Poem Should Conceal Nothing
NonFiction
JENNIFER D. MUNRO
Presents, Presence
CHELSEA SUTTON
It’s always in the crust
Fiction
ANDY BODINGER
A Sketch
ALYSON MOSQUERA DUTEMPLE
That Summer, a Bewildering Heat
MAX KRUGER-DULL
The Matt Walton Show
DOUGLAS SILVER
Sanctuary
Surrealist Prize Winner
RONDA PISZK BROATCH
Upon Reading Šalamun’s Opera Buffa, the Trees
Outside My Window Reel and Rhumba
Interview
Mary Ruefle
Willow Springs Issue 95 features prose and poetry from Zoë Ryder White, Aza Pace, Paola Bruni, an interview with Mary Ruefle, and more!
