Touching an oak leaf in my old age I bring to bear on it the pain of Chinese philosophy. I am letting the oak leaf fall down into my old age like a leaf that will fall down into a meadow well or brooklet to be still on the face of the water and to fulfill the touching of the oak leaf to the old man in me, the old man that was once in my heart, no man more severe. The oak leaf will fall still more silently. It is an old man’s oak leaf that will still fall.
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Featuring: This issue features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by William Aarnes, Anne Casey, Suzanne Cody, William Doreski, Katy E. Ellis, Kim Farleigh, Rosalind Goldsmith, James Grabill, Greg Headley, Tara Hun-Dorris, Jerry T Johnson, Erin Kae, Ashton Kamburoff, Candice Kelsey, Delaney Kochan, Kasandra S. Larsen, Catherine Roberts Leach, Kathy McConnell, Scott McDaniel, Allen Plone, Arthur Plotnik, Andy Posner, Big Rand, Mary C. Rowin, Joanell Serra, John Sierpinski, Dave Sims, Haydée Touitou, Tony Tracy, Viviane Vives, Joel Wayne, Tara Stillions Whitehead, Nan Wigington, Mike Wilson.