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.
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.