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: Issue 94, published April 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Rose Mary Boehm, Mark Anthony Burke, Carol A. Caffrey, Tetman Callis, Roger Camp, Kit Carlson, Todd J. Donery, Amy Strauss Friedman, James William Gardner, Wendy Gist, Michael Hower, Dan Jacoby, Jeanne Julian, Marianne Lyon, Allison A. deFreese & María Negroni, Marijean Oldham, Phillip Periman, Andrew Posner, Janet M. Powers, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Gerard Sarnat, Claire Scott, Jupp Soetebier, Phillip Sterling, Bob Strother, Shoshana Tehila Surek, Teresa Sutton, Joel Wayne, Kelley Jean White, Thomas Reed Willemain, and Guinotte Wise.