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: Issue 92, published October 2019, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Melissa Benton Barker, Howard Brown, Mike Callaghan, Luanne Castle, Michael Cohen, Mark Crimmins, DAH, Darren C. Demaree, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Hugh Findlay, Eric Forsbergh, Brandon French, Jeremiah Gilbert, Carlos Andrés Gómez, James Grabill, Zac Hall, Cordelia M. Hanemann, Danielle Hanson, Jana Harris, Ditta Baron Hoeber, J. Chad Kebrdle, Josef Krebs, Mary McGinnis, Marc Meierkort, Karla Linn Merrifield, Peter Justin Newall, Don Noel,Marlene Olin, Randy Osborne, Jose Oseguera, Andy Posner, M. Ann Reed, Paul Rousseau, Maya Salameh, Angela Santillo, Jake Sheff, Alan Sincic, Gary Singh, Charles Springer, Merideth M. Taylor, Stephen Curtis Wilson, Yvonne.