“Elegy for My Mother,” a poem by Ann Quinn.

Life, death, transfiguration.

“It was to be a good death, a clean death, a loving death …”

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Ann Quinn’s poetry collection, Final Deployment, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her work can be found in Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Haibun Today, among others.

Jonathan Machen contributed a politically motivated painting, Unite with Love, Resist with Love, to Broad Street in 2017. His work is currently on display in the Boulder History Museum. He also edits Haikutimes.

Jonathan Machen, Rocket Park playground in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Pen-and-ink with digitized color.