Dear Readers,
In quantum physics, entanglement is described as “a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon” in which “two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space…a change induced in one will affect the other.” Entangled particles, on this quantum level, are not therefore separate but parts of a whole—to know one is to know the other.
On a macro, human level, we can become similarly entangled, caught in web-like dynamics that ensnare our very atoms. And as a heightened form of attachment—be it romantic, familial, fated or otherwise—entanglement may blur the boundaries between “where I end and you begin,” to borrow from Radiohead.
The poets and writers of Issue 24 explore the mystifying, paradoxical nature of entanglement on various levels. They contemplate the universe’s deep expanse and the relationship between life and death, love and fear, water and sky, father and daughter, twin halves of the same self, as well as the intense entanglements of brothers, lovers, former lovers, and even a boy and his favorite mushroom.
Here you will encounter splintered realities and cosmic symphonies. Bodies enmeshed and vines entwined. Black holes and jellyfish tanks. Pulses from distant galaxies and particle accelerators in three different countries. The “invisible made visible” woven within onion farms, dirt roads, family histories, our own psyches, second-hand smoke, guitar reverb, and the motion of waves, with references to Interstellar, The Elegant Universe, and Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics along the way.
Where are your atoms? Let them speak to the ever-expanding beyond—to nature, and dark matter, and time, and each other, and to all that becomes entangled within us.
Sincerely,
Amy Dupcak
Issue 24
January 2025
Poetry
- Skinny Dipping - by Gordon Taylor
- Dead Ends and Ditches - by Denise Utt
- The Quantum Physics of Dressing - by Janine Certo
- In Translation: As your face spoke // Comme parlait ton visage - by Henri Meschonnic, trans. Don Boes and Gabriella Bedetti
- To Marie Antoinette - by Elizabeth Sylvia
- Distant Galaxy Sends Out Radio Bursts - by Diane K. Martin
- My Allowance - by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
- Two Poems by Kathleen Mitchell - After Signing the Divorce Decree // On Forgiveness
- Apocalyptic Us - by Lizbeth Leigh Jones
Fiction
- One for Babette - by A.C. Koch
- Splinter - by Kevin Singer
- The Superposition of Onions - by A. T. Yano
- Two Flash Fiction Stories by Calder Cassetti - We Shall by Mourning // An Aeronautical Aspiration
Nonfiction
- Clay - by Lindsay Michele
- Sea Gull Motive - by Jesse Curran
- Stretching Across the Universe - by Maureen Pendras
- There’s a Story Here - by John Thompson
- My Atoms Were There, My Atoms Are Here - by Carolina Pfister
Issue Cover
“Inner Dialogues (Conflict)” © abstractjity Nikolay, featured artist of Issue 24. All rights reserved.
Issue 24.1
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