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.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: Issue 95, published July 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Anatoliy Anshin, Shelley Benaroya, Barry Biechner, Kayla Branstetter, Linda Buckmaster, Jeff Burd, Louis Dennis, Steven Deutsch, donnarkevic, Kika Dorsey, Sharon L. Esterly, Laurette Folk, Eric Forsbergh, Meg Freer, Michael J. Galko, Brad G Garber, Melissa Grunow, Tresha Faye Haefner, Brett Harrington, Max Heinegg, AE Hines, Babitha Marina Justin, Babo Kamel, Alysia Kaplan, Emily Kingery, Kip Knott, Raphael Kosek, Mary Hills Kuck, DS Maolalai, Glen A. Mazis, Kiyoon Nam, Martina Reisz Newberry, BN Oakman, Michael Parker, Samantha Pilecki, Susan Pope, Mary Jean Port, Andy Posner, Paul Rabinowitz, Patrick T. Reardon, Rikki Santer, Robb Shaffer, John Sierpinski, Catherine Sutthoff Slaton, Karin Spitfire, Connie Wieneke, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.