Harmony In Motion
by Zoë Gabriel
Editorial
Forty Years
Fiction
Section III Carpe Mañana Flash Flash Fiction will return in our next issue.
by Jude-Marie Green, Associate Editor
by Caren Gussoff
by Richard A. Lovett
by Michael J. DeLuca
by Christopher Green
by Patricia Russo
by Zoë Gabriel
by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
by Emmanuel Jakpa
by T. R. Click
by Anna Sykora
Consider:
planetary systems, libraries,
flocks of birds at sunset
practicing maneuvers
with flaming swords,
old maps, pieces of glass,
whether elaborate, Venetian
or transparent globes
round as the Pantheon,
an entire soprano section
flicked by a fingernail.
Even so: orbits shift subtly,
bookshelves defeat
the most zealous duster,
the screeching wheels birds make
have nothing to say to me,
'Here be dragons' no longer holds,
no trilling wine glass is a
perfect globe to tell fortunes with.
Inconstancy is what I know best,
instantly recognizable,
so why wonder at the cherry blossom,
the falling bridge, the bursting pipe,
the flighty lover, when
my own thoughts dilute and scatter
like molecules, rabbits,
sunrays through a dusty pane.
In the midst of a story or an embrace,
I sigh in frustration:
where did it go? When did
the spheres stop chiming like a clock?
Zoë Gabriel's poems have appeared in Oysters & Chocolate, Word Riot, The Commonline Project, Thieves Jargon, GlassFire Magazine, Grasslimb, Centrifugal Eye, Poetry Midwest, Southern Ocean Review, Salt River Review, Locust Magazine, Unlikely Stories, AntiMuse and Cadenza; she has work forthcoming in Tales of the Unanticipated, Illumen and Weird Tales. Zoë dyes her hair, but is naturally tall. She loves books, languages, spicy food and colorful socks. She is from Europe and lives in Maryland.