The dark spirit of gladness is her mirror in a garden of thoughtful dreams tonight. These are her petals brought from rivers of song. The river of everyone is the river of song. After a devotion to her I release my heart to her. My sunlight is released. Her mirror is painted with the hard colors of cherished maples. She steps before me, smeared lightning. If it is energy rising from her, it is the soft poems that shall follow her quietly. Dear dream after dear dream from her and we know it is a crystalline Sunday royal from rhyme.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring:
Issue 111, published July 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Philip Arnold, Elise Ball, Omar Bárcena, Lucy Bryan, James Caton, Hannah Cook, Shutta Crum, Alan Elyshevitz, Matthew James Friday, Michael Hardin, Bob Haynes, Elizabeth Hill, Courtney Hitson, Justin Lowe, Jen McConnell, Kathy McConnell, mnemonixART, Joseph Charles Mollica, Michelle Morouse, Edie Noesser, Ernst Perdriel, Patrick T. Reardon, Michael C. Roberts, Dave Sims, VA Smith, Sharon Lee Snow, Jonah Sheen Tan, Josje Weusten, S.E.White, Holly Willis, Ellen June Wright, and Caitie Young.
