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 93, published January 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Walter Bargen, Nicole Beckley, Jerome Berglund, Eric Blanchard, Rebecca Buller, Lucas Carpenter, Marisa P. Clark, Gareth Culshaw, Steven Deutsch, Melanie Faith, Edilson Ferreira, Meg Freer, Ian Ganassi, James Garrison, Alisha Goldblatt, Leanne Grabel, Ryan Habermeyer, Carol Hamilton, Mark Hurtubise, Julie Jones, Seth Kristalyn, Emerson Little, Marianne Lyon, Karla Linn Merrifield, Suzanne Miller, Anna Oberg, Andrew Posner, V. Joseph Racanelli, Claire Scott, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Andrew Shelley, Dave Sims, Ann Christine Tabaka, Virginia Watts, Beth Williams.