In the river, crosscurrents. Under a stand of trees at the bank, ice shelves are covered with twigs and grass. From the bridgerail we ask about the age of the river in the sun, lovely for its alluvial deposit of memory in us, song sung blue. A poor creation is my dreaming if I do not learn from the dazzling dress of nature and the sudden wind at streambanks. An inner conversation like rain coming down in us is us, from age sixteen and forward. And these things are crosscurrents, memories of our married love and sirens raspberry, cranberry, vivid.
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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.