For Clark
Materialized by Eden Petri on Monday, September 22nd 2025.
Eden Petri’s writing has appeared in Three Rivers Review, where her story “Cutlery” won first place; Collision, where her poem “Lilac Picket Fence” received second place; and Forbes and Fifth. She was also named the alternate resident for the 2024 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence.
Other stars in the Whale asterism:
The Old Village Brings Memories
Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo
& i, light as a dry log, would take down cocoa pods, / guavas, bananas, & green mangoes. / & back in the kitchen, she would be there
Katsu
David Capps
When in Spring semester the breeze from cherry and apple blossoms would blow through the classroom he was first to sense it, and by the wordlessness of his example garnered participation points.
In Which No One's Swallowed
Stefanie Kirby
A whale waits, eager as sin.
silica
Emily O Liu
I have an impression, deep green: silicon chips bearing microcosm cities, projecting glitter onto a plastic heavens.
EALÁT
Shalini Singh
Only in an American pool, did I find myself floating like a leaf baying— what a beautiful thing it is when you drown yourself and come up, a dolphin more, less human.
The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe
Veronica Tucker
Children here sometimes age in reverse. I once saw a toddler fold into an old man between triage and discharge.
babel
Laura Walker
At first we kept close track of each unspent word, watching our hoard grow and grow, building more boxes and stacking them higher and higher, full of the unsaid, but always close at hand in case we needed them.