This is the heart of our future: what we wrap our minds around is getting hard to believe, but the mind has its own fingers and wings, and is the clarinet in us, a medicine against our shuddering, words to come from our hands and mold a heart or a cluster of hearts against the dusky roots of our demands. The gunsmoke ceases. Colors are drawn down. The old drunk stands in the shadows with the red devil. The rest of the future must be more sweet. There is the pulse to consider, and it is such a beautiful question.
Print & Digital Issues
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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.
