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CP Nwankwo Animal Eschatology when the dog dies, silence drifts like a reed basket down the stream; grief returns like a bark swallowed by shaped stones. they say there’s a domestic city where the spirit of beasts gathers beneath green’s … Continue reading →

M. Frost The Truth About Wings On a rocket ship …………………………………………..in space, you learn the truth about wings,…………. how air, not gravity, achieves flight, …………………………………………………………………………….still the birds disoriented, the down and the up without the weight of sky ………………………………………………………………….windless ……………………………………………………….reflection … Continue reading →

Anna Cates Foiled Ploys uncoil, rattle into sordid reality. Stars sink in the muck pond’s midnight stink, where toads gloat, cold and dark, and old trees creak how demons goad the wayward on. Electric charge tingles, lifts dusky locks, the … Continue reading →

Stephanie Smith Geometry The moon glides by on ice skates across a frozen sky Everything here is crystalline Still and perfect like geometry An entity that has known this world for eons Known its secrets It whispers equations in the … Continue reading →

John C. Mannone Naming Animals There are animals in the sky. See those that lurk in the house of stars where there are stories that I heard in a dream —beyond the knowing of fire and light, each star, a … Continue reading →