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In adjacent second story apartments live an old she and an old he.She is disabled, living in her unit thanks to...

In the Rothko Room at The Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC they only let in eight visitors at a time so the colors can saturate your very being in their loud stillness—so I sit with a few random strangers and we open our souls to the vibrant hues until we feel

It Burns the Blood Like Powdered Glass

Ayokunle Falomo

Meadowthis, and -that, until | Windswept. All this:—what is, | if it can be, expected—love,

Renascence

Ted J. Gibbs

There was movement in the trees and in the fields, and they were open and full of light. And from the swaying curtains..

Studies in Charcoal Abstraction

Steven Tutino

A series of charcoal abstractions based on the stimulus.

Bulmenia by Juan Arabia

Nacho Oliden

Arabia is configured in this monological song through the trade that has fallen to him, the craft that leads him to a...

Poems by Katarzyna Szaulińska

Translator: Mark Tardi
Author: Katarzyna Szaulińska

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Issue 36 - October 2021

Extract from Dante’s address to the reader in Paradiso II: 1-7