Guernica Magazine

Seeing Red

The February issue

Somehow, this singular color has woven through our work this month. Alexander Lumans thusly conjures it (even embracing the eponymous Taylor Swift album) as a centerpiece”: “Red, the color of state clay and C&Cs and fire engines and cherry blossom tips and Xannies and her Beamer and lakes of blood and candy apples and stop signs and hearts and the lightning-strewn sky on the cover of (and other things I can’t think of right now).”

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