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JOURNEY In this issue we are soliciting your submissions on the theme of JOURNEY. We look for work that uses words/images in a practiced, original way, work that reaches us on a deep level, where we are all human. We also need pieces that terrify us with evidence that we are not always humane. No hallmark verse or porn.

JOURNEY- real or imagined, hopes, disillusioments, fight or flight, death, birth, rebirth, a realization, an opening -- some of these may be in your idea of JOURNEY.

Humor. different voices, honesty: we look for variety, ethnic variety and multicultural views.

Duc Thuy Mountain

The mountain silky green as always,

Why hasn't the traveler returned?

The bright tower's reflection sits in the stream.

Clouds lifts up from the cave.

Distant from life's turbulence,

I now understand my error.

The sky of the Five Lakes is boundless;

Which way's the old rock where I sat and fished before?

Poems from Early Vietnam Translated by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chutrng