Poetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Two Poems by Suzanna C. de Baca Aspen Grove White beams of light, slender trunks like arms, reaching, rising in an invocation to the sky, a congregation of lovelies, slim and graceful, your pale papery bark so delicate, your sharp, dusty scent enveloping me, round leaves, lemonish green, rustling like pages of a hymnal in the breeze. White beams of light, each of you unique and separate, a family, a flock connected by blood, roots seen and unseen, you are one. You ...

Poetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Never Underestimate the Power of Recessive Genes by Shannon Frost Greenstein Never Underestimate the Power of Recessive Genes In the Punnett Square of life, we are all nothing more than our basic nucleotides and our filthy, sexual, Darwinian urges. Marionettes at the mercy of Nature and Nurture, no one escapes their own genetic blueprint; no one gets to choose. No matter the persuasive power of ethos or desire or willpower or fate, the dominant gene will always, always be ...

Poetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Silence by John Schaff Silence Pure, clean, and holy. There is wind rustling in the leaves and birds in the air singing. Although there are sounds there is silence. It is like the river. Never for a moment does it cease to flow, and yet for all times it is still. It is with itself in perfect harmony. Silence and stillness are not the absence of sounds or of movements. They are the products of acceptance of nature as God ...