This is the heart of our future: what we wrap our minds around is getting hard to believe, but the mind has its own fingers and wings, and is the clarinet in us, a medicine against our shuddering, words to come from our hands and mold a heart or a cluster of hearts against the dusky roots of our demands. The gunsmoke ceases. Colors are drawn down. The old drunk stands in the shadows with the red devil. The rest of the future must be more sweet. There is the pulse to consider, and it is such a beautiful question.
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Issue 112, published October 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Tobi Alfier, Sophia Carlisle, Jan Ball, Bordnick studio, Kit Carlson, Robert Carr, Sarah Das Gupta, Lynn D. Gilbert, GJ Gillespie, Steven Goldman, Yewon Han, Michael Hower, Kathryn Jordan, Raphael H Kosek, Aiden Kwon, Jennifer LeBlanc, Laurie Lindop, Alice Lowe, Pam F. Martin, Cecil Morris, Samantha Moya, J. Alan Nelson, Jennifer M Phillips, Brendan Praniewicz, Stevie Rosenfeld, Claire Scott, Rosanne Singer, Ignatius O'Neill Sridhar, John L. Stanizzi, Lucinda Trew, Nick Visconti, Matt Wanat, Ann Weil, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.