The yellow arrows on the pavement split to left and right, defining the acceptable movements of vehicles. And for a while, I’m immobilized, thinking of a butterfly flapping its wings. A typhoon I don’t want to create, so I sit in my car, studying the arrows. And I think then of my exhaust and of the Greenhouse Effect (especially because my particular automobile mocks emissions tests), and realize that not moving is a butterfly flapping its wings just as surely as turning is. And I’m jolted into action, but still haven’t made a choice. I shift my foot from the brake to the gas and the car leaps forward, splitting the arrows.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: Issue 92, published October 2019, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Melissa Benton Barker, Howard Brown, Mike Callaghan, Luanne Castle, Michael Cohen, Mark Crimmins, DAH, Darren C. Demaree, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Hugh Findlay, Eric Forsbergh, Brandon French, Jeremiah Gilbert, Carlos Andrés Gómez, James Grabill, Zac Hall, Cordelia M. Hanemann, Danielle Hanson, Jana Harris, Ditta Baron Hoeber, J. Chad Kebrdle, Josef Krebs, Mary McGinnis, Marc Meierkort, Karla Linn Merrifield, Peter Justin Newall, Don Noel,Marlene Olin, Randy Osborne, Jose Oseguera, Andy Posner, M. Ann Reed, Paul Rousseau, Maya Salameh, Angela Santillo, Jake Sheff, Alan Sincic, Gary Singh, Charles Springer, Merideth M. Taylor, Stephen Curtis Wilson, Yvonne.