Author Archives: Editor

Deborah L. Davitt Red Blood, Dark Water At the mere’s bank I stood, casting red rose petals into its night-dark waves; overhead, the moon hung in the sky, perfect, solitary— standing where white and black and red all met. In … Continue reading →

Megan Branning Wand of Iron Wand of iron tames a lion. Wand of hawthorn calms a wasp. Branch of beech anoints your feet, guides them home if you are lost. Twig of lilac holds the sky back when the rain … Continue reading →

Frank Coffman Merlin’s Return ………….English Megasonnet, an invented form Did the Lady of the Lake bind him in an oak? So goes one version of the many-forkéd tale. Or in a glowing mist that crystal tower seemed To Myrddin, trapped … Continue reading →

Patricia Hope Moonchild Last night I waded in the waters of the moon, thrust my feet in the cool liquid that’s nothing like the waters on Earth. It’s part moondust and part something else: a silvery, silicon, slippery substance that … Continue reading →

L. Acadia Noctiluca scintillans (蓝眼泪) Charting sine waves of ………………………………sun angles ………….tide cycles …………………….UV indexes ……screaming beachgoers we calculate 美人沙灘 Beauty Beach’s perfect snorkel hour dodging reef-flat turtle-traffic ……there are fines for touching navigate canyons so vibrant with reef fish we cannot … Continue reading →