FLINT HILLS REVIEW

Issue Thirty
Year:
2025
Contributors:
86
Pages:
Pieces:
188
86
Contents:
Kathleen Willard
Prairie Fire / 1
Halimah Abdullah
Buried / 3
April Pameticky
Moth / 18
Lynne Yu-Ling Chien
How to Pretend You Are Not You / 19
Dan R. Kirchhefer
Journey Delayed / 21
Carly Gates
Death and the Butterfly / 22
Meggie Royer
Osteogenesis / 23
Janet McAdams
June / 24
Francine Witte
The Girl I Have Become / 25
Jon Ballard
How It Was or Wasn’t / 27
Ann Piper
Shepherd’s Daughter / 28
David Pratt
Christmas 1914 / 29
Matthew Borczon
Vodka / 33
Alyssa Troy
Breakdowns in the Karaoke Bar / 35
Philip Miller
Your Old Self / 36
Quinn Carver Johnson
Obituary for Icarus / 37
Rick Campbell
The Grave / 38
Ariel Robello
Count to Ten / 40
Kami Olson
Rest / 46
Dixie Salazar
Letter from the Hospital / 47
Greta Hayer
Crumbs / 50
Larry Schwarm
Untitled / 59
Mason Gallaway
The Reacher / 60
Xánath Caraza
Serpiente de Primavera / Serpent of Spring / Koatl Xochitlipoal / 68
Don Kunz
Every Week / 71
Jeff Tigchelaar
Joplin Missouri, Three Days After / 73
Mary Sue Koeppel
The Fireflies / 75
Maria Fire
Lust for Language / 76
Kim Taggart
The Cut Above / 77
Dennis Etzel, Jr.
Along the Prairie / 78
Richard Dinges, Jr.
Planting Trees / 79
Ramona McCallum
Malagueña: Southwest Kansas / 80
Elisa A. Garza
Mist / 81
Kenneth Hada
Cimarron / 82
William Cordeiro
Herring’s Cove / 83
Thomas Fox Averill
Stealth Bomber / 85
Erica Goss
This Is a Wild Place / 87
Ellen Stone
Grass, Ascending / 89
C. Malcolm Ellsworth
Farmer / 90
Lynnae Lewellen
Untitled / 91
Alana Merritt Mahaffey
Harvest / 92
Thomas Russell
Mom Hung the Moon / 93
K.A. McGowan
Bukowski’s Mailbox, 3-11-94 / 94
Claire Donohue Roof
Amelia Earhart’s Plane Disappears / 95
Joanne Lowery
Perfect Saturday / 97
Kristine A. Somerville
The Tattoo / 99
Jane O. Wayne
Sorting Through a Drawer / 100
Jessica Owings
Flight Plan #1 / 101
James Doyle
Fortune Telling /102
Gabriel Welsch
The Capacity of Faces / 103
Jan Wellington
Miracle of the Single Mother / 116
J.P. White
The Sound of One Russian Name in My Ear / 117
Peter Donahue
Nautilus /119
Patricia Goodrich
On Burning a Dog / 129
Phil Anderson
Untitled / 131
David Beard
Camping on the Walnut River / 132
Paula Klein
love song for iowa / 133
KC Culver
St. Mary’s River / 135
Donna Pucciani
Disappearing Act / 137
Steve Shilling
In This Town / 138
Jason Ryberg
Wherever They Stoppped / 139
Adam Brewer
Top Hat / 140
Frankie Rollins
Talk of Dreams /141
Shelly Krehbiel
Watching for Bees / 147
Darren C. Demaree
Emily as Yellow Flowers at the Baptism / 149
Holly Day
Out in the Wild / 150
Robert L. Dean
Upon Waking She Finds This Note / 151
William H. Clamurro
Trajectories / 152
Andrés Rodríguez
Moths / 153
Zhimin Liu
Distance with its Bearing Memory III / 154
Mark Jackley
Love / 155
Blake A. Hoena
Freckles / 156
Geoff Collins
Leaves / 157
Christopher Todd Anderson
At Apogee / 158
Jonathan Greenhause
Finding Some Semblance of Order for Our Outdated Constellations / 159
Helen Trubek Glenn
Postcards / 160
Mitzi McGuire
A Muse Turns Back to his Easel, Unaware / 161
Erin Farias
Amado / 162
James Ehlers
Rising VII (State VI) / 163
William Sheldon
Wichita: A Star Rises / 164
Bart Edelman
Voice of America / 165
Jeff Knorr
A Lesson in Love and Evolution off Highway 99 / 166
Mary Makofske
Reading History Beside a River / 167
Mariette Palma
Review: Louise Krug’s How to Explain / 168
Rosalie Krenger
Review: Melissa Fite Johnson’s Midlife Abecedarian / 170
Asher Lefto
Review: Jen McConnell’s Current Disasters / 172