EDITOR’S LETTER

MockingHeart friends! How have you been lately? It’s good to be with you again, here in the midst of the turning of the planet, as the days get shorter and colder and crisper for those of us in the Northern hemisphere. The seasons are on the move, and so is this new issue of MockingHeart Review–in fact, our Fall 2025 theme is Mobility, and the creators herein have taken this theme to heart with zeal and meditative earnestness.

This issue’s Featured Poet, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, addresses the movements of life in “Riding with Ronda,” on a poet beloved to many who recently passed, and in “Back on Earth After Surgery,” she discusses the interplay of personal stasis with personal movement against the backdrop of the continued movement of those around us. Artist Margo Davis hints at the cyclical nature of mobility in Elevator Down, drawing attention to natural and constructed symmetry. Poet Ruth Holzer’s “On the Road, Fall 2001” unpacks the vulnerable and paradigm-shifting movement of the United States and the world after 9/11, juxtaposing against this huge backdrop the ways one life can also shift. And in “South Yosemite: all the world moving in hunger,” Michael J. Galko contemplates the slow movement of bears and breath and evening sun; water as it eats into rock; and the urgency of the woodpecker, a being deceptively like ourselves.

Happy reading, MockingHeart Friends. We so appreciate your enthusiasm for the journal, now in its tenth year–with many more on the way. Enjoy this fabulous autumn, and as always, thank you for your excellent work in the world.

Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief