Volume 27, Issue 1 of Cider Press Review, April 2025 In the first issue of Volume 27, as we emerge from winter, transforming with
Spring lilacs show slow in April, wet and late. Daffodils, bluebells, tulips, show sooner. Cynthia yearns for the lilac in my coat pocket. The
I left the laptop open like a mouth; walked to the other end of the room; stared at the greening water in the vase
in terrible cold, the space heater shivering the teapot chasing its boil, the street, unfurling through warped glass in ash, brick, and snow, and