Willow Springs Issue 96

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

CHINUA EZENWA-ỌHAETO

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

BRADLEY BAZZLE

Diminution

ANDREW FARKAS

Mythos of the Glaziers

PATRICIA HENLEY

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!

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