The Linnet's Wings

An Artful PerspectiveThe Linnet's Wings To Catch a Frog John Milton never attended a political convention but Paradise Lost depicts satanic demagogy and citizens dwindled to mere onlookers overwhelmed by giant voices. In the great hall of Pandemonium Stephen Zelnick Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen Section 11The Spanish word 'revista ' translates to the word 'magazine.' When I see it on the stands in Spain I feel it calling me in to revisit voice or to re-imagine story from another angle maybe a bit of fancy but I always notice the word before I read the title for I only have a working understanding of Spanish and the fact that I am not fluent works in my favour as it slows my reading to open out the vista. And we revisit some brave work not least the ?iurlionis' Funeral Symphony series which sets out our frontis alongside a few old and favoured classics from R.L. Stevenson and Francis Ledwidge. Classic work used to springboard the eye into the body where it finds a sympathetic voice in the work of Jose Marti John Milton Lewis Carroll and others as they are explored within our writer's contemporary world vision. All work is built within the mind first isn't it so it's done and dusted before its ever put down on paper Once there it gets a rewrite and numerous edits before it's allowed fall down into the regular threads. And our contributors write poetry prose essay and they translate classic voices those who in their own time also wrote about the ways of the world in an artful fashion to show perspective; to exclaim; explain; or make a point. Writing in this time of COVOD within our sections we have: 1. Mid Tones: Turn the Page by MariThe Apostle: Cuba's Immortal José Martí by Stephen ZelnickBisection Class by Sam HartburnHead of the Family and Whistle like a Clanger by Bill West2. Every Preposterous Thing: Painted Pictures by Marie Fitzpatrick Ritual The Secret Marriage by Susan Tepper Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen by Stephen Zelnick 3. Breakdowns Poetry Editorial by Oonah V JoslinThe Poor Man at his Gate Summer and Alien by James GrahamTransformation River to Oxbow Lake by Ceinwein E C HaydonLike Chalk Erased From The Sidewalk by Akeith WatersIt Frays by Caroline HardakerLet me Count 13 Ways on How I love you by John C MannoneI Used to Be Immortal by Irena PasvinterScones and Jam by Dolores DugganBeing Present by Anne DonnellanBird Breveament by Alisa VelajThe March of Time by Lesley TimmsPeasant Woman Watching the Geese by Camille PissarroThe Geese Fly North by Nick BowmanMother Moon by Ann Thornfield-LongMurmurration by Matthew PaustMoon Dance Trees Coming Green April Tom SheehanA Balmy Day by James G PiattThe Woodland Mass (Welsh Translation) by Thomas Norman