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| Issue 28: | April 2025 |
| Poem: | 70 words |
| + Visual Art: | Photograph |
Photograph by Christopher Woods
Poem by Gary S. Rosin
Red, White, and Blue Inside
This flag in my window does not flap in the sun, drip in the rain. This flag shelters safe in my heart, it tells you all you need to know. This flag colors the way I see every single thing around me. This flag once flew at my wedding, now it presides in our bedroom. This flag will cover my coffin.
—Inspired by this photograph:
Don’t Tread on Me (photograph, 5 February 2025)
Copyrighted © 2025 by Christopher Woods.
All rights reserved. Appears here with artist’s permission.
Christopher Woods
is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away, was published in August 2024 by Kelsay Books, which also published his chapbook What Comes, What Goes (2021). In addition, he’s the author of a novella, Hearts in the Dark (published in Running Wild Novella Anthology, Volume 4, Book 1; 2020); a collection of brief fictions and prose poems, Under a Riverbed Sky (Panther Creek Press, 2001); a book of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak (Stone River Press, 2002); and a Young Adult novel set in 1943, Dream Patch (Corona Publishing, 1985).
His work has appeared in hundreds of publications, with writing in Another Chicago Magazine, The Galway Review, Glimmer Train, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Phantom Kangaroo, and The Southern Review, among numerous others; and photographs in 2 Bridges Review, Bracken, Longridge Review, Oxford Magazine (Issue 45), Pank, Peacock Journal, San Pedro River Review, Streetlight Magazine, Tiferet Journal, and Young Ravens Literary Review, among many others. Woods has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation.
Artist’s online portfolio:
https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ The Photographs of Christopher Woods, photo-essay in Street Light Magazine (5 April 2024)
⚡ Ghost Happy Hour, prose poem by Woods in Phantom Kangaroo (Issue 22, January 2016)
⚡ Final Appointment, flash-length play by Woods in KYSO Flash (Issue 2, Winter 2015)
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