Mudfish 21

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Often literary journals announce a theme ahead of time; MUDFISH announces its theme as the poems become one at publication--they create their own voice, in this issue celebrating youth from the vantage point of age, life from the embrace of death. In Yeats' words, "Bodily decrepitude is wisdom, / Young we loved each other and were ignorant." The poems reflect our lives today with all its attendant joy and grief. The art, like the poetry, is completely various, both traditional and new-fangled, and both art and poetry convey a sense of process: a sense of the writer or artist creating a living and breathing thing.