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H E R E C O M E S T H E S U N Welcome to the Red Wolf Journal Spring 2015 Issue 5. Life is full of strife. Not a bowl of roses. Yet it’s really about how you see, isn’t it? Notes of green, yellow, orange. These balance out, dominate, crowd out the shadows. The brown and the gray. Their presence fills the heart with song, yelling: here comes the sun (yea, The Beatles). We’re sun-worshippers. The sun is the center of your universe, as a lover is. Each day, when the sun goes up, is a moment of rebirth. We’re born again. Art, in tandem, is about making it new. As a trope in poetry, the sun is really about transcendence. Finding the sublime in the mundane. Experiencing joie de vivre. As practicing poets, we like to think art helps shine a light on the path. One might also reframe this thing into an optimist/pessimist frame. Like Don Quixote believes in windmills and Hamlet believes in the nunnery. Both minds being tarred by the brush in which they paint. So maybe at the end of it all, you can balance out the entire composition. You, the poet. But just as we could do with a little sunshine, too much of it causes imbalance. Can we be blinded by the sun? Icarus flew too near the fireball and got burned. Hubris–overstretching, or too much belief in infallibility–seems to be a tragic flaw. We want to cling to the belief that we’re somehow divine, special, unique. Will we be undone? Are we saved? It all boils down to the consciousness that we each possess. We’re just beings who desperately need to see the light. Irene Toh and Tawnya Smith, editors Red Wolf Journal http://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/ 1
C O N T E N T S Vivienne Blake, Shadows 5 Marilyn Braendeholm, A Dozen Poppies 6 Bobbi Buchanan, Secrets You Know 7 Alan Catlin, Butterfly Kiss 8 Alan Catlin, Nocturne in Blue & Silver 1872-78 of James McNeill Whistler 9 Alan Catlin, Views of Charing Cross Bridge after Claude Monet 10 Alan Catlin, Waterloo Bridge: Effect of Sunlight in the Fog 1903 after Claude Monet 12 Alan Catlin, Diane Airbus Held 13 Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, Ecstasy 15 Christopher Hileman, I May Not Be Much But I Am All I Think About 16 Christopher Hileman, Running For My Life 17 Christopher Hileman, With The Goddess 18 Christopher Hileman, That’s When The Sun 19 A J Huffman, Arch Rock 20 Ron. Lavalette, Sundress 21 Ron. Lavalette, Chase 22 2
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Page 30 and 31: Love Is a Dream By Barbara Young Sh
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