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Latest Issues

On Old Mansions and Mass Extinctions

“Sycamore and Prius, Lindner Park,” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 12”x9”

Lindner Park is so hidden in the neighborhood of Norwood in Cincinnati we thought we’d come to the wrong place. The turn-in looks like a driveway, and the old McCull...

10 days ago
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Explaining Déjà Vu

“F-150,” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 12x9

Explaining Déjà Vu

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You say it happens when our brains mislabel a short-term memory

as long-term, which must be why this feels so familiar, your arm

around me, my hand in yours against...

18 days ago
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Next To, Or Near (Short Fiction)

“Mattress with Drawers,” Brad Davis, 2020, oil on wood, 8”x10”

Next To, Or Near

She’d had the cruiser for years: a blue plastic sports car attached to a black pole and handle that someone could push while a kid sat inside, spinning a st...

25 days ago
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Incandescence

“St. Francis Seraph Church,” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 12”x9”

Incandescence

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On the bridge crossing the interstate

the sunset paints the black chainlink fence

golden. Peter, Paul, and Mary are singing

in my mom’s voice. The d...

a month ago
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Healing Springs and Relics of War

“Relics, Middendorf’s,” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 12”x9”

Altamont

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After a run in Tower Park I walk our dog down into

the creek bed, down the hill where the slope is gentlest,

by a Sycamore that germinated a century before my m...

a month ago
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  • Plein Air Poetry

    Words from Alexandra McIntosh & paintings by Brad Davis. Dispatches from our search for the sublime. Working mostly en plein air ("in the open air") in the Impressionist tradition.

  • Brad Davis

    Cincinnati Painter

  • Alexandra McIntosh

    Alexandra McIntosh lives and writes in Kentucky, her favorite place in the world. Her book of poetry, Bowlfuls of Blue, is available from Assure Press.

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