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: Double-Issue 91, published July 2019, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Mary Ade, Sookoon Ang, Mark Belair, Julie Benesh, Darrell Urban Black, Charlie Brice, Linda Briskin, Krikor Der Hohannesian, Melissa Fast, Alice B Fogel, James Garrison, Diane Gottlieb, Gillian Haines, Penny Jackson, Steven John, Janet Joyner, Hooman Khoshnood, Kim Kolarich, James Ph. Kotsybar, Jes C. Kuhn, William Lanford, Susanna Lang, Anthony Lawrence, Susan L. Leary, Paul Lieber, Sam Love, Marianne Lyon, Sheree La Puma, David Magill, DS Maolalai, Martha Nance, Harold Olejarz, Alifah Omar, Charlotte M. Porter, Andy Posner, Michele Reese, Niku Rice, Brenda Serpick, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Jupp Soetebier, Glen Sorestad, Nick Sweeney, Ann Christine Tabaka, Cedric van Eenoo, Kristin Van Tassel, and Sally Zakariya.