Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 32 – Wild Swans features the best fantasy and contemporary poetry and fiction from 79 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join these Wild Swans on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, mythology, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows. Featured Poets and Fiction Authors Simon MacCulloch Nancy Machlis Rechtman Sterling Warner Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Andy Perrin Steve Sibra John Tustin Robert Witmer Kathylynne Somerville Bruce Hunter Abel Johnson Thundil Kenneth M. Kapp Kushal Poddar Linda H.Y. Hegland Mark Young Ankur Jyoti Saikia Isabel Cristina Legarda George Vance Chris Collins Dan Smith Barbara Leonhard Victor Kennedy Jane Blanchard Townes-Thomas Bonnie Meekums John Drudge Elizabeth Marino Steve Klepetar Kelly Moyer Moe Seager Dibyasree Nandy J.D. Nelson Wendy Webb Ken Gosse Robina Rader Jayanta Bhaumik R.I. Karoly Allan Lake Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon Joshua Green Esmorie Miller Fred Johnston Karen A. VandenBos Roger Haydon CLS Sandoval J.B. Hogan Deepa Onkar John Doyle Jennifer Gurney Tony Dawson Lynn White Fabrice Poussin Gopi Kottoor Amrita Valan Christopher Fried Cyril Simsa Charles A. Perrone Sarah Das Gupta C.S. Hughes Christina Chin Michael Shoemaker Bradford Middleton Philip Butera Snigdha Agrawal Michael Ceraolo Petrouchka Alexieva O.P. Jha Concetta Pipia Terrence Sykes Xenia Giagli Oonah V. Joslin Steve Deutsch Elizabeth Marino Daipayan Nair Angel Edwards Thompson Emate Don Edwards Anise Algin Mark Hendrickson Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow. Pablo Neruda I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind. D. H. Lawrence