Author Archives: Editor

Simon MacCulloch Minotaur ………….The maze has no center ………….The monster is nowhere Orange-baked brick of the sausage-chopped houses, Mapless and minding their undiscussed business, Gridding a zone where the heat-stink of man-bulls Loiters at corners and trembles in trash bins, … Continue reading →

Daniel Roop The Ridge, Scruggs County, Tennessee They came from the city, out of state, to buy the land in midwinter. The road ended at the base, so they scaled the acreage on foot. The trees stood leafless and gray, … Continue reading →

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 →