The tears in your Cherokee snow-heart bend my life (which is a badly dented teakettle) toward spring water, and my eyes and memories in blood-structure sear face and heart. I have heard autumn’s glass rivers glaze and break free again and again, and I drink to them. Black aircraft enter a singing death. The music in the painter returns: is sent forth and returns. So glitter we from Haydn to Dryden and from Dryden to Haydn. Of unsound design is the cola made of fresh violet, and only halting celebration in our years. Exemplar! Exemplar! Whose clutch drifted.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: Issue 96, published October 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Tobi Alfier, Jan Ball, Jessica Barksdale, Julie Benesh, Christopher Paul Brown, Tetman Callis, Pamela Hobart Carter , Patrice Boyer Claeys, Robert Daseler, Adeet Deshmukh, Kathryn DeZur, Connor Doyle, Shawna Ervin, Robert René Galván, Gail Ghai, Luminous Humidity, Soyoung Koo, Janine Kovac, James Latimer, Charlotte Lee, Harry Longstreet, Alice Lowe, Geoff Martin, Erika Nichols-Frazer, Tali Perch, Hiram Perez, Sue Powers, Diana Raab, Caroline Rowe, Michael Salcman, Mervyn R Seivwright, Kayann Short, Dianne Silvestri, Brigitte Stepanov, Ann Christine Tabaka, Sally Zakariya.