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issue 1 sequences


​Cotton Candy Clouds


at the peak once virgin forest
 
good night moon trails beyond the sea
 
3:23 am before the birds sing forgotten lyrics
 
porch ceiling haint blue spirits rise
 
faded feedsack aprons pockets of love
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-Margaret Walker​
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​when the angle of his oar was just right


​first blush scents the blossoms tap the birds wakes the sleepers relay race
 
those small moments in the midst of what’s burning
 
drop by measured drop the drip  drip  dr ip  transforming
 
morphine and life going to death
 
widely awake in the wrong season
 
my head bends to one small child her hands of red leaves
 
holly wreathes the window’s chocolate covered cherries


-Jo Balistreri
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Cephalophore  ​


​beyond my reflection a headless mannequin 
  
 
          walking from Montmartre to St Denis  
 

All Hallows’ a knife and a pumpkin under each arm  

         following the trails of decollate snails 

all the calories are here, she says, blowing off the foam 

          from a pint, reflecting on the volume of a skull 

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         -Charles Trumbull & Lew Watts

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​ISSN 2769-5263
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