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O Capricious Heart

January 2012 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

O capricious heart

Make me the miracle

That in choir of love’s opus knells deeply

Sharp as piercing awe

Like eyes perched in windows of a face

Gleaming with the hymn of sharing candles

Kindled in a liturgical flicker of the other

—Remi’el Ki

 

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Issue 114, Apr 2025

Featuring: Issue 114, published April 2025, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Virginia Barrett, Julie Benesh, Alyssa Blankenship, Alex Braslavsky, Vikki C., Tetman Callis, Roger Camp, Zack Carson, John Colburn, Ben Guterson, Tresha Faye Haefner, Moriah Hampton, Sher Harvey, Penny Jackson, Carella Keil, Sam Kerbel, Amy S Lerman, Valentine Mizrahi, Christian David Loeffler, Judith Mikesch McKenzie, Jiyoo Nam, Megan Peralta, Andy Posner, Jim Ross, Beth Sherman, J.R. Solonche, Alex Stolis, Maxwell Tang, James Bradley Wells, Tracey Dean Widelitz, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.

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