Welcome to the June Issue, Volume 28, Issue 2 of Cider Press Review. In this issue of Volume 28, we feel time’s press on
Today I saw a sparrow chasing a tiger swallowtail— the butterfly rose and dipped and veered away like a bright-sailed catamaran in heavy seas
This is where I keep my ocean—in a small grey drawer with a light-brown knob. Whelk, clam, scallop, mussel, snail. Smooth, striated, spiraling,
And no vicious freeze or blowing snow. Poem free of hints of birds—tube of sunflower seeds, a fallen block of suet. There’s no