Volume 36, Issue 1
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Featuring work byPOETRY Emma Aylor • Don Colburn • Benjamin Cutler • Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach • Emma DePanise • Ronald Dzerigian • Camille Ferguson • Naoko Fujimoto • Adelina Rose Gowans • Jessica Hincapie • Juleen Eun Sun Johnson • Olivia Kingery • Alyse Knorr • D.C. Leonhardt • Lauren Loftis • Jennifer Maritza McCauley • Jessica Mehta • Alicia Mountain • Kat Neis • Sarah Degner Riveros • Ashley Danielle Ryle • Anthony Sutton • John Allen Taylor • Angela Narciso Torres • Alice Turski • Laura Walker FICTION Paul H. Curtis • Erica Henry • Tom Lakin • Siarra Riehl • Linda Wilgus NONFICTION Susan Barr-Toman • Tina Mozelle Braziel • Jeff Ewing • Priscilla Long • Linda Parsons ART Leila Rose Fanner
Olivia Kingery
I said please get up, but my voice
was flattened by rubber meeting blacktop,
by metal pushing with haste
through air and the scent of blood.
In spring, fresh fingers of roadside
weeds reach from the thawing
ground, unfurl from concrete sleep,
tell themselves to surrender to sunlight;
this is called the green up,
when roads warm from spring’s
relief and plants alongside beckon
to the animals in their prayer and periphery –
and from the periphery bodies move
to silence the winter felt in their bones,
until hunger meets steel, until their bodies
are a prayer, until until until –
And that leads me here
on my knees in a halo of dandelion,
throwing my voice into the question
a body makes when hit by a car,
their mouths a throne of green.
Leila Rose Fanner is a painter and illustrator. Born to a South African artist and an African American musician, she was raised in South Africa and currently works from her studio in Riebeek Kasteel.
Leila is both a figurative and an abstract painter. Her creative inspiration is interwoven with her spiritual journey and personal dream symbols. Depicting dream-like natural settings for her silhouetted female figures, she explores her personal relationship with the material realm through a metaphysical and spiritual lens.
Her primary focus is on the meditative journey of creating a piece of art, which she feels is part of the appeal of the final piece.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Emma Aylor • Don Colburn • Benjamin Cutler • Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach • Emma DePanise • Ronald Dzerigian • Camille Ferguson • Naoko Fujimoto • Adelina Rose Gowans • Jessica Hincapie • Juleen Eun Sun Johnson • Olivia Kingery • Alyse Knorr • D.C. Leonhardt • Lauren Loftis • Jennifer Maritza McCauley • Jessica Mehta • Alicia Mountain • Kat Neis • Sarah Degner Riveros • Ashley Danielle Ryle • Anthony Sutton • John Allen Taylor • Angela Narciso Torres • Alice Turski • Laura Walker FICTION Paul H. Curtis • Erica Henry • Tom Lakin • Siarra Riehl • Linda Wilgus NONFICTION Susan Barr-Toman • Tina Mozelle Braziel • Jeff Ewing • Priscilla Long • Linda Parsons ART Leila Rose Fanner
Olivia Kingery
I said please get up, but my voice
was flattened by rubber meeting blacktop,
by metal pushing with haste
through air and the scent of blood.
In spring, fresh fingers of roadside
weeds reach from the thawing
ground, unfurl from concrete sleep,
tell themselves to surrender to sunlight;
this is called the green up,
when roads warm from spring’s
relief and plants alongside beckon
to the animals in their prayer and periphery –
and from the periphery bodies move
to silence the winter felt in their bones,
until hunger meets steel, until their bodies
are a prayer, until until until –
And that leads me here
on my knees in a halo of dandelion,
throwing my voice into the question
a body makes when hit by a car,
their mouths a throne of green.
Leila Rose Fanner is a painter and illustrator. Born to a South African artist and an African American musician, she was raised in South Africa and currently works from her studio in Riebeek Kasteel.
Leila is both a figurative and an abstract painter. Her creative inspiration is interwoven with her spiritual journey and personal dream symbols. Depicting dream-like natural settings for her silhouetted female figures, she explores her personal relationship with the material realm through a metaphysical and spiritual lens.
Her primary focus is on the meditative journey of creating a piece of art, which she feels is part of the appeal of the final piece.
