I never write a poem unless it is a song, and I never write a song unless it is a poem.
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Venus is rising on Half Mystic Journal. Opus II, Issue III: Vesper sleepwalks to life on July 28th, plucked like a violin string from that quicksand hour before dreaming.
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Genre had to be invented, and it’s high time we start building artistic legacies beyond its walls.
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To be young is fleeting. Love and life pass like the ungraspable wind, never to return again.
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The sevdah playlist is a lush echo of the pulse of sage & velvet that defines this issue, with songs chosen by our editorial team in the process of curating & dreaming.
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In an older sense of the word, to understand means “to stand among.” When I need to understand anything, I often stand among songs.
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An ineffable, blink-quick mix of songs chosen by our team & contributors to evoke the flirtation of silk & song woven through the presto issue.
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In the back alley of my mind a taxi leaked orange light against the worst of my wounding and I said, I want to leave that here.
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My work as a writer is aimed at truth which, like a song, cannot be contained.
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A series of songs chosen by Issue X’s contributors, a mix to light up all that desperate quiet & sing the grief alive.
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