TWO TANKA

C. X. TURNER

along the edge of clouds I feel you shaping my world in all the softness a sky can offer on a rock amongst wild flowers just sitting a skylark’s song and I celebrating spring

CONNOR DOYLE is a photographer and filmmaker based in the Chicagoland area. Using a number of analog film formats, Doyle’s work focuses on the idiosyncratic details of daily life in Northern Illinois, specifically his native Wheaton. Though often trivial, his subjects capture the formal beauty and potency of these everyday sites, urging his viewers to reflect on the significance of their lived experiences. His work has been published in the Hole In The Head Review, Closed Eye Open, Parliament Literary Journal, and Burningword Literary Journal. You can visit his website at connordoylephotographyfilmmaker.cargo.site

HARBINGER OF SPRING, PETE MADZELAN

PETE MADZELAN resides with his wife in Las Cruces, New Mexico. His writings and photography have appeared in Burningword Literary Journal, Fleas on The Dog, The Courtship of Winds, Sky Island Journal, Bellingham Review, Cargo Literary Journal, New Mexico Magazine, Photography Art Shows in Albuquerque, Photography Center of Cape Cod, San Pedro River Review and is forthcoming in New Mexico Poetry Anthology to be published by Museum of New Mexico Press.