‘Saint Fanourios Please Reveal’ by Andrea Krause

Isochronus II
Carrie Weis

Saint Fanourios Please Reveal

She baked the dense cake
with seven ingredients—
or was it nine—always
a number adding up to odd.
A cake raised for lost things:
her vanished boy
her adrift hope
to reveal themselves.
But those in absence did not appear,
just a slab of mortal cake
crumbling on a plate.


Andrea Krause (she/her) lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in The Penn Review, The Shore, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter at @PNWPoetryFog.


Carrie Weis is an artist, writer, and educator.  She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Kendall College of Art & Design, and a B.I.S. degree in Studio Fine Art with a minor in Art History from Ferris State University. She is active in her studio practice attending residencies and exhibiting in solo and group shows. Her works have been published on book covers and in art and literature periodicals.