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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Issue 110, published April 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Seo Jin Ahn, John M. Blodgett, Roger Camp, Teresa Hyoju Chang, Sarah Chavera Edwards, Mark Connelly, Mark Crimmins, Elias Diakolios, Kim Farrar, Steve Fay, Sam Graham, Sydney Greiner, Angie Hexum, Ken Hines, Richard Holinger, Aidan J Hong, Diane Hueter, Kathryn Jordan, Jian Kim, Jihu Kim, Josef Krebs, Linda Laderman, Nicholas Mayo, Martha Nance, Larena Nellies-Ortiz, Gloria Demasi Nixon-John, Edie Noesser, Larry Oakner, Yeobin Park, Eric Roy, Claire Scott, Cindy Sams, Vimla Sriram , Maxwell Tang, Jim Tilley, Katherine Tunning, William J Waters, Ian Wells, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.