Fire Poetry Journal
Issue Six: The Green Light
Editor's Note
Maybe you're walking down an empty city street, and you see it: a faint luminous glow down an alley. You don't mind the day's fading sunlight, or how dumpsters crowd the light out until it's the only thing you see: the green light, beckoning to you, somehow both terrifying and comforting.
It's as if hope could smother.
Or maybe you are in the woods, and the canopy of trees trembles shadows back and forth. You feel a cool wind across your neck. This animal feeling both freezes you and makes you want to run, to bite. And then the sun peaks from behind a cloud and everything turns gold again for a moment and you steady yourself and continue the walk back to your car, thinking about home like it is a warm den.
Being a modern person is hard. There are many obligations: the personal and professional. It's normal to want something, to feel the urge to progress, to move toward what we are owed. What can be difficult reconciling this dream with our lives, too beautiful and humanly limited. In poetry, we have the ability to inhabit all kinds of possibility: beauty, loss, happiness, pain. In these poems, our authors each engage with what it means to be human: no matter where we are on our green path toward tomorrow.
Joy Bowman
Shaun Turner
co-editors, Fire Poetry
July 15, 2019
It's as if hope could smother.
Or maybe you are in the woods, and the canopy of trees trembles shadows back and forth. You feel a cool wind across your neck. This animal feeling both freezes you and makes you want to run, to bite. And then the sun peaks from behind a cloud and everything turns gold again for a moment and you steady yourself and continue the walk back to your car, thinking about home like it is a warm den.
Being a modern person is hard. There are many obligations: the personal and professional. It's normal to want something, to feel the urge to progress, to move toward what we are owed. What can be difficult reconciling this dream with our lives, too beautiful and humanly limited. In poetry, we have the ability to inhabit all kinds of possibility: beauty, loss, happiness, pain. In these poems, our authors each engage with what it means to be human: no matter where we are on our green path toward tomorrow.
Joy Bowman
Shaun Turner
co-editors, Fire Poetry
July 15, 2019
Fire Poetry Issue Six (Summer 2019)
Poems by:
Frances Donovan
Justin Holliday
Babo Kamel
Laurie Kolp
Mason Elise Patterson
Ron Riekki
Fire Poetry, Issue Six (Summer 2019)
Editors: Shaun Turner and Joy Bowman
Editors: Shaun Turner and Joy Bowman
