It won’t just be the handshake of the ocean. It will also be the empty string of the guitar. and a woman’s voice will sound like the skin of a turtle, wishing. She will not only be wishing but pregnant also. Along with a boy she will carry a marzipan apple and the island of Krk. They will travel out of her soft center to meet the busy sun.
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Issue 109, published January 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Carol Alexander, Lis Beasley, Jack Bordnick Studio, Heather Bourbeau, Michael Daley, Keith T. Fancher, DM Frech, Jeremiah A. Gilbert, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Liz Irvin, Richard LeBlond, S. Frederic Liss, Suzanne C Martinez, Ashley McCurry, Robert McKean, Cecil Morris, J. M. Platts-Fanning, Rebecca Pyle, Jim Ross, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Rikki Santer, Fabio Sassi, Zeke Shomler, Caroline N. Simpson, Gerald Wagoner, Richard Weaver, Tracey Dean Widelitz, and Steve Zimmerman.