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First Light is sitting on a park bench at daybreak; the warmth of sunbeams on skin juxtaposed with the cold air surging into one’s lungs.

Our writers and featured artist capture that wistfulness and reflection one feels when a new day begins, with the old one fresh but surely fading away. Enter the visions of trains by sunrise, trees unfurled, kites in the breeze, and strawberry summers.

We present this new issue of Talon Review with the same excitement we felt seeing it come together, and hope you are moved enough to share it with others.

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Faculty Advisor - Mark Ari

Editor in Chief - Christina Deangelis

Managing Editor/Fiction Editor - Seth Gozar

Poetry Editor - Mary Feimi

Layout/Design Editor - Jessica Woodman

Featured Artist - Morgan Motes

Readers 

Gabriella Christenson | Lawrence Dutton | Giancarlo Laboy | Savvy Mcleod | Harper Warner | Mikayla Woolwine

what’s inside

Cover: Cotton Stalks by Morgan Motes 

Before the Waterfall by Morgan Motes

Swimming Pool by Allie Kraska 

Blueline by Kushal Poddar 

Lullaby by Logan Monds 

A Perfect Warmth by Hadley Hendrix 

sunday by Shannon Pulusan 

Black water by Morgan Motes 

Ring Park by Morgan Motes

Nocturne Noontootla Creek by Morgan Motes 

In Search for Clarification by Allie Kraska 

Boats on Water by Morgan Motes 

Building in Rain by Morgan Motes 

Night Poem by Ted Burke 

These Windows Know All About Lakes by Simon Perchik 

Fall and the Fox by Christyn Kelly 

Exist by Edward Lee 

Istria Landscape by Morgan Motes