Introduction
In Issue 21 of Young Ravens Literary Review, we explore what haunts us—from nature’s unmitigated fury and startling beauty to the inexorable turning of the seasons and the slow siphoning of our years.
Life’s responsibilities and the regrets that only time teaches pervade human hearts with a tempest of love and smoke, with the roiling clouds of our colliding actions and inactions.
We are struck by wonder and woe at other worlds, glories and selves we may barely glimpse with our eyes, but forever chase after like mist with our ink and art.
We seek a “pocket of peace” in the storm of mortality, dreaming awake in our skin until at last, night falls (Nancy Machlis Rechtman, “Silence in the Storm”).
Life’s responsibilities and the regrets that only time teaches pervade human hearts with a tempest of love and smoke, with the roiling clouds of our colliding actions and inactions.
We are struck by wonder and woe at other worlds, glories and selves we may barely glimpse with our eyes, but forever chase after like mist with our ink and art.
We seek a “pocket of peace” in the storm of mortality, dreaming awake in our skin until at last, night falls (Nancy Machlis Rechtman, “Silence in the Storm”).