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    • Issue 4: Humbled Vessel (AUG 2022) >
      • Issue 4 Cover Artist - Melanie April >
        • Issue 4 - with birdsong between
        • Issue 4 - words into flowers
        • Issue 4 - the other side of &
        • Issue 4 - reality enters from the back
        • Issue 4 - to insert what's missing
        • Issue 4 - bridge to the infinite
        • Issue 4 - emerging light
    • Issue 3: Into Oneness (May 2022) >
      • Issue 3 Cover Artist - Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
      • Issue 3 - yet purple dahlias
      • Issue 3 - light's thesaurus
      • Issue 3 - slippingthrough
      • Issue 3 - inside the wind
      • Issue 3 - funeral sky
      • Issue 3 - small wins
      • Issue 3 - Jonathan's Picks
      • Issue 3 - Pippa's Picks
    • Issue 2: Summoning the Sky (Feb 2022) >
      • Issue 2 Cover Artist - our thomas
    • Issue 1: Kinetic (Nov 2021) >
      • Issue 1 Cover Artist - Subhashini Chandramani
      • Issue 1 Spring
      • Issue 1 Summer
      • Issue 1 Autumn
      • Issue 1 Winter
      • Issue 1 Transitions
      • Issue 1 Sequences
      • Issue 1 Letter from the Editors


issue 4 - reality enters from the back

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black dog I seek to silence the bark and bite

- Tracy Davidson, UK





my pacing calabash calabash

- Kati Mohr, Germany 





rock and roll moments with mother :: death rattle

- Tracy Davidson, UK





is to was father’s passing 

- Lithica Ann, USA 





a rainbow the day you became rain

- Marcie Wessels, USA





a little white casket reality enters from the back

- Dan Schwerin, USA 





mule deer slowly leaving her bones behind

- John Pappas, USA





the end of mourning neelakurinji

- Akhila Mohan CG, India





sunrise sea water swirls his ashes at my ankles 

- Margaret Walker, USA





the idea of you feathers away from me as time passes

- Katherine E Winnick, UK​


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to insert what's missing

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  • Home
  • Info
    • About
    • Submissions
    • Sign Up To Read
    • Statistics
    • Team
    • Contact
  • Lizard Lounge
    • Lizard Lounge - from the Issues
    • Lizard Lounge - Republished
  • Nominations
  • Comments for Contributors
  • Read the Journal
    • Issue 4: Humbled Vessel (AUG 2022) >
      • Issue 4 Cover Artist - Melanie April >
        • Issue 4 - with birdsong between
        • Issue 4 - words into flowers
        • Issue 4 - the other side of &
        • Issue 4 - reality enters from the back
        • Issue 4 - to insert what's missing
        • Issue 4 - bridge to the infinite
        • Issue 4 - emerging light
    • Issue 3: Into Oneness (May 2022) >
      • Issue 3 Cover Artist - Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
      • Issue 3 - yet purple dahlias
      • Issue 3 - light's thesaurus
      • Issue 3 - slippingthrough
      • Issue 3 - inside the wind
      • Issue 3 - funeral sky
      • Issue 3 - small wins
      • Issue 3 - Jonathan's Picks
      • Issue 3 - Pippa's Picks
    • Issue 2: Summoning the Sky (Feb 2022) >
      • Issue 2 Cover Artist - our thomas
    • Issue 1: Kinetic (Nov 2021) >
      • Issue 1 Cover Artist - Subhashini Chandramani
      • Issue 1 Spring
      • Issue 1 Summer
      • Issue 1 Autumn
      • Issue 1 Winter
      • Issue 1 Transitions
      • Issue 1 Sequences
      • Issue 1 Letter from the Editors