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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 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 is welcome. JOURNEY and change are celebrations in the end no matter how tragic. "You may laugh about that later." Maybe much later. But we do not trivialize your work, your present feelings, or your submission.

We look for variety, and especially ethnic variety and multicultural views and JPEG pictures and drawing/paintings we can do justify it in black and white. If we put it on the covers, it's in color.

By chance I stay overnight at the temple. / The old monk gives me half his bed. / In the morning I scoop water from a rocky stream. / At night I sleep like a cloud on paper scrolls. /  Pine cones tumble past the sill. / Gibbons call from across the river. / The wooden fish shakes me from my dream. / A rain of flowers falls.

Used by permission: translated by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung from Chan Khon (Vuong Hai Thiem -- 1046-1100), Zen Poems from Early Vietnam, tho thien Ly-Tran.