SEA TO SKY REVIEW

JUSTICE ISSUE

VOLUME 3. ISSUE 2. NOVEMBER 2021

It turns out Justice is a very difficult theme, and although we intended to publish in the summer, we needed to wait.

We needed to wait for Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s Five Elegies for trans women who were murdered in 2020. We needed to wait for Joan Maza’s brutal self-examination in Courage. We needed to wait to hear Terry Ofner’s Small and John Davis’ Lips of Democracy. We needed to wait for all these intentional poems, this prose and all these photos. But today, the waiting is over.

POETRY

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The cross isn't in us

Kelly O’Toole

if I go to the therapist
and stop crying at IKEA
and in the mornings,
can I find my heart again?

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Small

Terry Ofner

He fits in impossibly tiny spaces.
He gives up pieces of his life,

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Five Elegies

Subhaga Crystal Bacon

I just heard pow pow pow pow pow,
so I’m like d— they shooting early in the day time,
it’s day time they shooting.

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Visitations

Allan Lake

Her spirit managed to survive windy,
wintry Canadian prairie, my family,
mad migrations and my infidelity,
almost.

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Go Fund Me, please?

Gerard Sarnat

When embers came raging
down, ran through flames
to edge of Indian Creek

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Three poems

Joan Mazza

I wish you weren’t dead so I could give
you hell. I’m having my say in print.
A bestseller would look like justice.

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Three Poems

Jude Goodwin

When you’re already leaving
the place where you’ve set it all down

and the radio tunes itself
as you walk away.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

XR Spring Rebellion Photo Reel by Yvonne Hanson

Yvonne Hanson is an activist with a camera. In her XR Spring Rebellion Photo Reel she captures the absolute face of Justice.
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Photos by Natascha Graham

Natascha Graham’s photographs are sprinkled throughout this issue. Natascha is co-editor in chief of Tipping the Scales Literary & Arts Journal with her wife and co-hosts the upcoming LGBT podcast, The Sapphic Lounge, with fellow writer Stephanie Donaghy-Sims.

PROSE

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Justice or Mercy

Thomas R. Willemain

You have justice on your side. The kid flunked fair and square …

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