In nebular cantos, the starry-eyed cantos, the evergreen century releases its spectacular flags. Electrical storms are innocent, gathering rain like old words in an evergreen-emerald canto. I view night after night them detonating the sculptured rose, the scripture of rock that night takes to the poor–a stillness of my own, though reason is my endgame. The graveyard is the reason the centuries storm the last red rose, pulse-red and rooted in the ancient blue moon mounted above the canyon. Don’t burn the evergreens in a ritual storm. Let reason be your rose allegro, crystal, raven-hearted.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: This issue features stimulating and provocative works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Anne Alexander, Tobi Alfier, Michael Baldwin, Walter Bargen, Heath Brougher, Rita Ciresi, Ben Erlandson, Rodrigo Etcheto, Phil Gallos, Duane L Herrmann, Heidi A. Howell, James Croal Jackson, Jing Lin, Sean Murphy, Sheree La Puma, Robert Perchan , Andy Posner, Michael Karl Ritchie, Sandy Robertson, Gerard Sarnat, Mark Stein, Paul Tarragó, Alison Terjek, Shannon Thrace , Stephen Curtis Wilson, Terry Wright.