Current Issue - West Trestle Review

Women :: Nonbinary :: Art :: Fiction :: Poetry

Hands reach through body tissue

Ode to My Intravenous Catheter / Vismai Rao

Seated human without skin gazes away from viewer, into black-and-white forest

Loose Sonnet with Uncertain Tracks / Beverly Burch

Woman swims in blue water under a red sky

Feu Du Ciel / Jerrice J. Baptiste

Dandelion puff in place of the top half of a woman's head

The Geometry of Dandelions / Jo Angela Edwins

The Fall River Line / Chloe Martinez

Blonde woman in pink leotard backflips through black-and-white photo of a grocery store aisle of potato chips

Herrings / Katherine Martini

Left: black and white topographical map aligned with colorful moth wing on right

Inverse / Sara Lupita Olivares

Collage: Woman with chandelier earrings, palm trees over her eyes, a white wine bottle on its side shows the word "land."

Fairlies: At Trader Joe's in South Pasadena / S. Erin Batiste

The chest of a woman is cut away to reveal a pair of eyes. Black and white.

Ordinary Psalm with Sylvia Plath on the Radio / Julia Levine

Background: sepia-tone flock of marching birds. Foreground: Black-and white image of smoking woman with single bird on her shoulder flapping its wings.

Truth Walks the Plank / Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Bikini-clad woman is seated in the dirt, turned away from the viewer. In the distance is a windmill and outcropping. Behind her, foreground are grafittied walls and two horses.

The Novitiate / Julia Levine

Infant floats in an image of blood cells while holding a disconnected hand

When My Partner Asks Me about Immigration Reform / Eva Maria Saavedra

Four people in black-and-white stand in a line and reach to the side as colorful paint spills from their hands.

Pipeline--An Imagining / Caridad Moro-Gronlier

Background: rose wallpaper. Foreground: two girls in black and white, one holds a rifle and aims.

My Near Enemy / Clara McLean

Grayscale feathers and paper

Yes O Yes / Angelique Zobitz

Two children in black-and-white walk a tightrope above a glass of whiskey. Full bottle of whiskey in the background.

Portrait of the Alcoholic / Despy Boutris

Statues of demons over the top half of a woman's head.

Lover of Demons / Merridawn Duckler

Interview / Molly Dunham

Collage art created by Molly Dunham