Issue 2: In Flore
in flore - in bloom
All things bloom at their own pace. For these fifty-two previously rejected works, their time to bloom is now.
Each piece has been placed into a symbol of Spring and renewal - sunflower to represent nature, tree of life to represent growth and philosophy, daffodil to represent the human experience and peony to represent the tangible and material world.
We hope you read these pieces with the spirit of this season in your mind - hope, new beginnings and a second chance.
David and Katie, Editors
sunflower
We Float Like Lilies on the River - Prose by Maxine Meixner
But You Have Promises to Keep - Poetry by Matthew Miller
Star Muck Bourach - Poetry by David Linklater
Rose Hips - Prose by Sarah Tollok
Dandelion - Poetry by David R. DiSarro
Weeding - Poetry by Barbara Simmons
Eating the Woods - Poetry by Lillian Nećakov
Changeling - Prose by Michelle Kulwicki
Flowers In My Jeans - Poetry by Lauren Goulette
Shadows in the Shape of Jellyfish - Prose by Amber Nuyens
The Walk To The Horizon - Poetry by Luke Bateman
A Silence Lurks in These Depths - Prose by Joe Butler
Underside - Poetry by Maggie Swofford
tree of life
Parallel Lives - Poetry by Julian Matthews
Zen and the Art of Dishwashing - Poetry by Eric Evans
Tiresias Was - Prose by Alice Langley
On A Quiet Day - Poetry by Leah Holleran
Rapture - Poetry by Elizabeth Garcia
The Weight of the Wind - Prose by Len Kuntz
On Leaving Home - Poetry by Anna Papadopoulos
In Memory of My Memory - Prose by Diego Martínez-Campos
Becoming - Prose by Sara Dobbie
Pebble - Poetry by Sadie Maskery
The Museum of Lost Chances - Prose by Audrey Niven
Doctor Wicked - Poetry by Michael Cooney
Endings - Poetry by Ashley Logan
daffodil
A Mended Sternum, Your Silver Hands - Poetry by Olivia Torres
Why She Wears Black - Poetry by Robin Mullet
Fly Away - Prose by Alex Law
A Love Like The Phoenix - Poetry by Imogen Smiley
Unhappily Ever After - Prose by Christina Rosso
Pinal County - Poetry by b. pick
Fat Head by Izzy Radford
A Reply to the Newest Mail in My Inbox - Poetry by Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
The Elf King - Prose by Margaux Emmanuel
The Author at 11 Wanted to be Reincarnated as a Dog - Poetry by Andrew P. Dillon
Mae - Prose by Lotte van der Krol
A Sister Hellscream - Poetry by Taryn Miller
Girls Dem Sugar - Poetry by Oak Morse
peony
Dream of the Burial Mound, East Texas - Poetry by Robin Turner
Under the flight path - Poetry by Laura Brinson
The Clockwork Heart - Prose by James Blanchard
Yard Sale, After - Poetry by Aaron Sandberg
The Tie - Prose by Jeanette Smith
MacArthur Park - Poetry by Abriana Jette
Kale Chips - Prose by Sara Torres-Albert
Night Shift - Poetry by Amanda Cino
Gunmetal Pink - Prose by Annie Percik
night house - Poetry by Sally Badawi
in which the book keeps up its end - Prose as told to Glenn Ingersoll
Happiness Blues - Poetry by Gregg Shapiro
Than This of Juliet - Poetry by Magi Sumpter