I shudder to demand of the unwrinkling angels (bright winged over damnation-burned orchards), chant me another century of perfect sonatas! Songs that will insist against the darkness like an idiot’s bombs, gunsmoke and blurred colors. We living fires will cluster in the forest as if nothing were left but what we believe, night mysteries that force our awareness. Planet-shaped wine smoke as clear as clarinets is the key to the flaming Orion in our hands and irises. Inspire me perfectly where my words touch melody, and let my words cease brittle hearts from falling dead into the sun.
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Featuring: This issue features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Steve Ausherman, Tayo Basquiat, Martha Catherine Brenckle, Michael Daley, Roberta Senechal de la Roche, Sophie Ezzell, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Brad G. Garber , Chelsea Hansen, Kat Heatherington, Gloria Heffernan, Charles Holdefer, Will Huberdeau, Janet Jenkins-Stotts, Alison Jennings, Steve Karamitros, Candice M Kelsey, Abigail King, Kimberly Lambright, Charles Leipart, John Leonard, Gregory Loselle, Briana Loveall, Marianne Lyon, Sheree La Puma, Susan Martin, Karla Linn Merrifield, Daniel Edward Moore, M. Ann Reed, Nicolas Ridley, Michael Karl Ritchie, Gerard Sarnat, John Sweet, William Torphy, Stephanie Vanderslice, Stephen Curtis Wilson.