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April 1, 2023 By Suzanne Farrell Smith

From the Editors | Issue #26

April 2023

From the Editors

Editors Cheryl Wilder, Suzanne Farrell Smith, and Claire Guyton

Spring has arrived with all its blush and promise. By happy accident, we three women of Waterwheel Review get to spend our renewed energy on female vision, power, and connection in Issue #26. Donna Obeid’s “Omnia Vanitas,” one woman’s map to rapture, begins with the eternally good counsel, “Don’t be tricked by the knights. Don’t follow them into the forest.” Anna Citrino’s “Remembering Adella” honors a mother’s legacy of dedication and back-breaking labor, “Every action a prayer of submission to necessary work.” The woman in Elizabeth Bedell’s “The Shawl” mourns her mother, too, as she lives “in the key of grief.” Like a small, spring garden, these pieces. Planted here in celebration of our mothers and sisters.

—Claire, Suzanne, Cheryl 


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April 1, 2023 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #26

Who made it?

April 2023 | Issue #26

With “Omnia Vanitas” by Donna Obeid

“Dance on The Moon” by Aurora.
1800s oil painting of fair-skinned woman with long straight brown hair leaning on her elbow, her other hand resting on a human skull, looking dreamy and contemplative into the distance
Omnia Vanitas, 1848, by William Dyce.
Untitled by MariaD.

With “Remembering Adella” by Anna Citrino

abstract field with rough brush strokes for grass, valleys and hillsides in white, gray, and blue
Embracing the Silence by Wanda Loomis.
early version of Picasso's Woman Ironing; woman with dark brown hair, olive skin, bent over using a flat iron; colors are all tinted with hues of blue
La Repasseuse, 1901, by Pablo Picasso.

With “The Shawl” by Elizabeth Bedell

Chopin Etude in E major Op. 10 no. 3 “Tristesse” by Henrik Kilhamn.
curly blond-headed child in red coat and hat bending over a wall covered in vines with a key to unlock a secret door; book cover of The Secret Garden
Cover: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk.
painting of women wearing Kashmiri shawls; colors of the background are earth tones and abstract; women are wearing cream-colored shawls with the same earth tones as the background
Cashmere, 1908, by John Singer Sargent.

Acknowledgments

Field background by BETRuleR via Alpha Coders.

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