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: 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.