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| Robert Carnes |
Beach Buddha
Cannon Beach, Oregon
I like to think
waves aren’t thinking—
but are, like us,
being thought up
endlessly
onto this shore
where sunlight illumines
the depths in all of us
into clear
shimmering
sea-through
translucence
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| Daniel Skach-Mills |
A 2026 Pushcart Prize nominee, Daniel Skach-Mills’s poetry is forthcoming in The Pensive Journal and Wild Roof Review. His book, The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, was a 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist. A former Trappist monk, Daniel lives with his husband in Portland, Oregon, where he served for 15 years as a docent at Lan Su Chinese Garden. He was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in 2024.


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