Noreen Rei Fukumori, Fuyu Kaki (detail)

Volume 7

From California to Cuba, and from the far Northwest corner of Montana to New Brunswick, Canada, this volume delivers potent prose, trenchant poetry, and evocative art from writers and artists of all ages and backgrounds. Experience Stephanie Dickinson’s explosive story of violence and grief, the boyhood recollections of Blair Fuller, and cover artist Noreen Rei Fukumori’s succulent pairing of fruit and reconciliation.

Noreen Rei Fukumori, Cherry Plums (detail)

Backyard Fruit

Polaroid Photo Paintings by Noreen Rei Fukumori

Just before the winter solstice, my brother, sister, and I let go of the simple wood-framed house we had called home for forty years. It took a year to empty the house of its furniture and layers of accumulated memories.

The Prudent Man

Rick Bass

The indefatigable Cesar Hernandez is to the Cabinet Mountains and the rest of northwest Montana the shining spirit, the one link in a greater chain. Slender, wiry, alternately mercurial and thoughtful, Hernandez, a native of Puerto Rico, grew up in Brooklyn and moved to the secluded
Cabinet-Yaak country almost forty years ago.

Catherine J. Richardson, Caspian (detail)

I swim in Tomales Bay

—salt water cold

as grape popsicles—

this is not a metaphor, just

how it is.

– Mary Winegarden, “Untitled”
Shirley Salzman, Periodic Art of the Elements

Old juniper, old artificer, blue berries,

gin and July, you’ve done this walk

once, twice, or a thousand times, now

– Larry Ruth, “South Fork of the Kings River” (excerpt)

Noreen Rei Fukumori, Fuyu Kaki

Contributors

Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.

  • FRONT COVER
    • Noreen Rei Fukumori   Fuyu Kaki
  • BACK COVER
    • Julia Edith Rigby   Tomales Calf
  • PROSE
    • Blair Fuller   Grand Central Station
    • J. C. Stock   Bird Standing on Water
    • Rick Lyttle   Unorganized Sports
    • Vicki DeArmon   A Mother’s No
    • Stephanie E. Dickinson   Emily and the Dynamite
    • Alvin Duskin   The Red Arrow
    • Elaine Elinson   Bringing the Grape Boycott to England
    • Rick Bass   The Prudent Man
    • Molly Katzman   When It Stops Raining We Sleep Beneath the Stars
    • Rosaleen Bertolino   The Burned Hill
    • G. David Miller   Our Family Farm
    • Claire Peaslee   Colophon
  • POETRY
    • Jody Farrell   Ode to the First Blackberry of Summer
    • Keith Ekiss   Miss Maria’s New Dress
    • Pamela Manché Pearce   Ocean View, Hotel Nacional de Cuba
    • Anuja Mendiratta   Brasil Vignettes
    • Roy Mash   Revolving Sunglass Display
    • Hiroki Coyle   The Treasure
    • Gerardo Loza   Where I’m From
    • Heather Quinn   Mindspill: a Paradelle
    • Agnes Wolohan von Burkleo   Now I Am an Old Woman
    • Dave Seter   Mission Blues
    • Gina Cloud   night poem
    • Dale Pendell   Sunset
    • Larry Ruth   South Fork of the Kings River
    • Cathryn Shea   The Chill of Grace
    • Claire Blotter   California Wild Flower Tonic
    • Anna Gold   “Will You Miss This?”
    • Mary Winegarden   Untitled
  • ART + ARTIFACT
    • Ashley Teodoro   Seal
    • Adam Shemper   On the Day of Our Engagement, Motel Inverness Boardwalk, Tomales Bay
    • Jenifer Kent   Wave and Transit
    • Mariana Smith   The Seed of an Idea
    • Nancy Stein   Wave 43
    • Rebecca Czapnik   So Little, So Much
    • Brooke Holve   mtlaugwalkcut_5
    • Sophia Dixon Dillo   Appearance I and Appearance III
    • Noreen Rei Fukumori   Backyard Fruit
    • Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman   Marine Study, Chimney Rock
    • Topaze “t.c.” Moore   Bestiary #1 and Quagga Stallion and Foal
    • Sherri Paul   The Treasure Hunter
    • Patricia Thomas   Fog
    • Anne Faught   URSA
    • Julia Edith Rigby   Tomales Calf
    • Jacqueline Mallegni   Haiku
    • Vincent Dion   Untitled #37
    • Sage Rossman   Two Trees
    • Shirley Salzman   Periodic Art of the Elements
    • Theodora Varnay Jones   CP-X
    • Susan Putnam   Untitled #244
    • Eileen Puppo   Seasonal Shock
    • Wendy Schwartz   Rich Readimix
    • Bob Kubik   Morning Coffee
    • Adah Pinchuk Hyman   Estero in Blue and Tomales Bay, Low Tide
    • Kathleen Goodwin   Homage to the Half Tree
    • Andrew Thompson   Warning: Bees
    • Charles Eckart   View from the Bicycle
    • Caitlin McCaffrey   Domed Nest with Pantry Chambers
    • Catherine J. Richardson   Caspian
    • D. L. Woerner   Joan’s Falcon
    • Lisa Piazza   Leaf #3
    • Lorraine Almeida   Growth in the Desert
    • Isis Hockenos   We, the Milked III
    • Jon Langdon   Asters in Starlight
    • Thomas D. Joseph   Tennessee Valley Beach
    • Mark Ropers   Point Lobos