Table of Contents


Views and Mechanics
Publisher's Note
Editor's Note
Review of Bliss
Review of Atheist Manifesto
Review of The Stones Cry Out
Film review of "Karov La Bayit"
Creative Nonfiction
A Reverence for Words
By Virginia Hendry
For the Wife of Bath and the Wife of Yeats, I Give Thanks
By Sara J. Ford
Birth
By Clint Pearson
Poetry
Gong Fu
By Tim J. Brennan
Phases
By Tolu Ogunlesi
They Are Driving Their Cars Again, They Are Driving...
By Anne Cammon
Death of the Travelers
By Abigail Grant
Leaves
By Matt Gee
Fiction
The Wood Splitter
By Michael Phillips
Boogie & Sarah Leigh
By Sandra L. West
What Happened to Matt Dillon
By Chris Drangle
Red, Manhattan, 523
By Beth Hogan
Titanic Hat
By D.K. McGill
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Gong Fu
By Tim J. Brennan

under foreign tea leaves
we lay, far from light

wrapped in dragon pearls
Jade spring, Phoenix eyes

We experience withering
become less brittle
with each other
in passing hours

one house, one room
wrapped in aroma

noses of our existence
touching green coasts
of China, black smells
of Sri Lanka & India

sometimes, even during
the dead of night, while
the children sleep, we
awaken and brew tea