Half Mystic Journal Opus II Issue II

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>Opus II Issue II of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>Half Mystic Journal</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)> is a constellation of contemporary poetry prose and visual art celebrating music in all its forms. Our twelfth issue showcases the theme of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>sevdah</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>: a damask veil a clipped swan's wing a memory of a late-night lake with a long-gone lover when the sky and water turned the same colour and met at the edge of the world. The shadow-self of Issue II's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>saudade </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>theme this collection exalts in its own unquenchable yearning. With a pulse of sage and velvet it unfolds into a liturgy beneath half lights holy and heavy as the still before the train comes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>Issue XII features the voices of Adam Falkner Rita Mookerjee Natalie Marino Kathleen A. Wakefield Angela Sucich Jordan Silversmith Jared Povanda Natalye Childress Lee Anderson Sophie Crocker Allison Cooke Dontay M. Givens II Nick Visconti Amber Cecile Brodie Amrita Nur Gordan Struić and Sjafril.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>In the mythic yawn between absence and presence Opus II Issue II wanders an empty airport terminal like centre stage. Tenderness blossoms fragile and fragrant here coiled around the thorn of desire. The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>sevdah</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)> issue breathes at once as song and spell: a vow made in a past world a memory yet to be lived chords drinking down silence and lingering long after the ghosts have gone.</span></p>