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Quotes from the 1st Issue's COVID-19 Section
The 1st Issue
We released our first issue on September 24th, 2020. It's filled with powerful poetry and prose accented by beautiful art pieces. A wonderful addition to your library, 68 pages in full color. A great gift idea for any occasion.
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A little taste from this special first double issue:
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To Live by E. Izabelle C. Alexander
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"For many years now, my imagination remains my aid. Armed with this limitless perception, I can discern the seductive shades of the wilted, desiccated rose crunching and disintegrating beneath my heels. Perceive the kiss of frost like glitter adorning evergreen hedges. Soft, fuzzy bees pollinating white and pink lilies—if I choose, I can breathe in the fragrant scent. Hear the splashing, permeating mist of water fountains layered with children’s laughter as they chase each other around. Without this creative power, the world can be frightful and unsavory—an apple poisoned to its core."
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The Quiet by Sandra Lang deRive
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"Crisp evening air surrounds me
Bringing frozen drops of water to kiss my skin
White flakes float down from a darkened starry sky
Designed by nature…Winter begins"
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Naked by Cassandra Crossing
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"I never wanted to lose my mind. My body had seemed expendable, but not my logic, reasoning, ability to remember."
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Paint Remains by J. C. Eavenson
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"Sometimes leftover paint wants to be poured
Wants to feel a roller
Wants to coat the walls and make the room smell new and fresh "
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The Lowlands by Sonya Wohletz
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"When I walk through the park, I marvel at the rising tides that invade like clots through the tangled growth—berry brambles, silver thorns, slender branches. Silent. The water comes to rest here, satiated. "
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My Heroes by Sheila E. Valesano
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"My heroes don’t have special cars or ropes.
They just have gentle hearts, helping hands, and hopes.
They make a difference one person at a time."
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Keeping Still by Joanne Jagoda
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"By observing, holding back, and being silent at times, one can slow down and appreciate life. When surrounded by the beauty and wonder of nature, a sunrise with pink clouds melding into dawn or a violet sunset streaking the sky, no words need to be spoken."
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Eclipse by Adam Rubin
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"You are my darker side that night ushers in.
You are the trigger.
You are the target.
You are the crime—"
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My First Camel Ride by E. Izabelle C. Alexander
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"The man can no longer hold the rope. He lets go. He keeps yelling in Arabic, but his camel pays no attention. We’re going faster and faster straight toward the Sphinx. Distance absorbs the guide’s calling."
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The Girl Who Knew the Secret of the World by Mollie Yang
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"She told me that everything was upside down. That sometimes, when she looked up to find the sun, the soil of the Earth would fall in her eyes. She said it was because she was walking on the stars."
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Molting by Alyssa Asaro
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"She was simultaneously a spider
And its web"
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Held Hostage by Sinthia Steel Smith
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"My pieces collide with yours
even if you fight and try to prove you're nothing like I am."
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Flower Tree by Sabrina Jovic
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2020 by Timothy Kovacs
"When I leave my home, I leave in fear. Fear that I will contract this virus and spread it to my family and to my friends. Though I am terrified by what damage COVID-19 would wreak on my body, I know that the guilt would haunt me if I were to hurt others by some sort of negligence."
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Spring in Quarantine by Alex Li
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"If a boy falls off his bike
but there’s no one there to see it, does it matter if he dies?"
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The Sound of Now by Tammy Smith
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"This is the sound of now. The clicking of fingers flying over keyboards extending beyond their reach. Flexibility fuels productivity. Despite being more vulnerable to environmental stressors, like a honeybee, I attend to the queen’s needs and work for the benefit of the entire colony."
The Land of Frozen Plenty by Ashley Memory
" Looking at the lemon tarts, I felt more than a little guilty. I was ashamed. My husband and I routinely buy and cook more food than we need, but we rarely share. And now that I yearned to share, I can’t."
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Stay by Lucy Heuschen
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"How sad. You see the storm, but
Not the potential.”
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One Day by Kathleen Kempert
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“No baby,” I say gently, “we need to stay safe.”
His face scrunches up in a wave of anger, sadness, and misunderstanding. “I hate the coronavirus!” he yells, running away as he begins to cry. I reach out for him, but he avoids my touch."
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Who Will Water My Garden by David Rojas
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"You hold solitude tender and profound like a flower
un-bloomed;
still, in your garden melancholy lurks as a color, fleeting
and unforgotten, between green nooks, behind brown eyes."
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The Girl in the Tree by Devon Pike
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“Please help me,” whispers the girl in the tree who is not my girl. The girl in the tree who is scared, the girl in the tree who I will touch when no one is looking whether it counts or not, but I don’t hear her in my ears, I am already climbing."
Flowers in the Background by Paul Iasevoli
"but I remember that day
when I drew you standing naked
in a bloom of blood-red poppies
across a potter’s field—
and a crumbled gravestone
at your feet,"
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It is There by Craig McGeady
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"It is there, the broken path leading to our own expectations, desires,
framed in tattered blueprints, draped upon the wall, behind cracked glass,"
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The Things That I Don't Like by Casssandra Crossing
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"Powerless against the invisible threat of the novel coronavirus, they gather together and use their voices to make a change. They assemble and march on the streets to be heard.
The virus doesn’t listen. It infects and kills silently."
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Night by Tiko El Outa
A little taste from the first double issue's COVID-19 section: