Poetry
Wolf Rune
by Thomas Zimmerman in Issue One, November 2021
The forest lands link earth with heaven,
spruce-tree tips like dendrites of elder earthen gods.
The long, dark, lonely winters swirl within
a song, the singer’s storm-tossed mind at odds
with frozen lakes, the fir trees’ needle-bed.
Moose-haunted... Continue →
The Opposite of Time
by Brian Hugenbruch in Issue One, November 2021
The opposite of Time is Might-Have-Been.
We travel through the tempered void and thus
can change the stream of time to flatter us,
but currents pull us toward what we’ve seen
has come to pass. It lives within us still.
How many restless empires have we torn
Ascenkin's Roots
by Ai Jiang in Issue One, November 2021
We are crowded sisters
with roots that tangle and quiver
in the wind. Our roots cling
onto brittle pieces of shattered,
dried soil. Only crumbles hold
our skeletal bodies upright.
The leaves have long fallen,
consumed by creatures
who... Continue →