Altar in a Barn by Margaret H. Wagner

  dedicated to a cowgirl… Torn ticket to a rodeo, stained upside-down wooden raspberry basket, teal, brocaded pincushion the size of a child’s hand, dried bee balm bouquet. Well-worn lasso, shredded and dusty, rusted Campbell’s soup can brimming with marbles, baby bootie scuffed, eyelets misplaced. A black silk stocking, lace on its ankle, draped over rosewood branches crossed to the four winds, silver butterfly charm with busted clasp. Hotel key yoked to plastic diamond shield, letters faded, metal watering can with no handle, yellow coneflower sprouted from a crack in the soil. The marks “n o w” in the dirt,…

Winter 2021

THE COACHELLA REVIEW WINTER 2021 James Sie Fiction / Alpha Emily R. Frankenberg Poetry / Three Poems Rebecca Lee Nonfiction / The Rat Trap Jacqueline Henry Poetry / How to Flatten Byron Flitsch Nonfiction / You Talk Like a Girl Kathleen Hellen Poetry / Muddy Sake Amanda Witherell Nonfiction / Diary from a Disappearing Island Scott Pedersen Fiction / Cut Your Own Jeanne van Blankenstein Interview / Author Kimi Cunningham Grant Chanel Brenner Nonfiction / Fear Marissa Alvarez Poetry / A San Bernardino Ghost Story Marci Pliskin Fiction / Stuff It Maryann Aita Nonfiction / The Geography of Flight Barbara…