by Heikki Huotari
The anthem is a function of the feedback, Jimi Hendrix, may your serenade go
out untamed. You may have won a hundred years a hundred years ago. The
repartee has been upgraded, that’s what they say. Put the entities together in a
room and they’ll sing kumbaya in unison. The power outage was the doing of a
flying squirrel. If the smaller of the cataclysms was adopted by the larger, what
the dove was getting at was not what an equivalence of a nanosecond made.
Adjacent parallelograms of moonlight work themselves into a state when you
don’t know the law like they do. The ingredients were secret and the wishes
whispered to an empty room. It was the seventh century. A bridge was burned.
The essence of the rapture was the disbelievers paid.
Beautiful Deadly Flowers
by Kathy Bruce
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia and mathematics, he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize and publication in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition. His Erdős number is two.
Kathy Bruce is a visual artist based in Upstate New York and Scotland. Her work explores archetypal female and mythological forms within the context of poetry, literature and the natural environment. Ms. Bruce is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 2 Fulbright-Hayes scholar grants to Peru, and a Ford Foundation Grant. She has exhibited her work in the UK, US, and internationally, including Senegal, Taiwan, Denmark, Peru, France, and Canada. She is a regular contributor to various literary journals, some of which include Three Rooms Press, The Vassar Review, Alchemy Literary Magazine, Open Minds Quarterly Journal, The Perch Yale University School of Medicine, The New Southern Fugitives, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Ignatian Literary Magazine, The Variant Literature, Landlocked Literary Magazine, The Rejoiner Rutgers University, The Brooklyn Review, Twyckenham Notes, The Porter House Review, Pushing Out the Boat, National Women’s History Museum, and Minding Nature.
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