Giant Wall, by Cindy Faughnan

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems

  * Cindy Faughnan writes poems for children and adults when she’s not working on her middle-grade/YA novels. Her poems have appeared in Roar Kids Magazine, Dirigible Balloon, High Five, and Visual Verse. She completed an MFA in Writing for Children and Young...

Humpback, by Leigh Manley

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems

Here you come, Major Big Time, smooth-sailing ocean’s ceiling in your lumpy, bumpy skin, swaying hello to watchers: a living, breathing submarine tail-waving so-long like a colossal mermaid on vacation. You re-emerge in thundercrush rush, splashing and spraying your...

Big Things Start Small, by Jodie Houghton

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems

I often forget that big things start small: a poem with one line, a rope with some twine; a castle with a brick, magic with one trick; a chicken with an egg, a circus from one peg; an encore with a clap, migration with one flap; a belch with a bubble, a beard with...

Critically Endangered, by Claire Schlinkert

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 poems

Let us speak for the Voiceless Treefrog, and not take risks with Gamble’s Flatwing. Let us stay true to the False Shark Ray, and not wrong the North Atlantic Right Whale. Let us look out for the Four-Eyed Turtle. Let us value the Yellow Goldflake, and not slight the...