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Category Archives: Poetry
Our Lady of Wrinkles
Our Lady of Wrinkles by Noel Sloboda Her bony forefinger lends texture to masks of whom we become tracing each passing moment. She lingers longest around the bright eyes of those lost in embraces or despair caressing the corners of … Continue reading
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Principles of Entropy
Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg Principles of Entropy I press your ear against the Egyptian cotton sheet you will hear the universe gravitating towards expansion each of the thousand threads straining against this forced dissipation let your head lay across your lover’s … Continue reading
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Daughters of Melisseus
Valya Dudycz Lupescu Daughters of Melisseus Much is expected of the daughters of a Titan. He shatters silence with a fist dripping honey. The beating goes unheard beneath the buzz and whir of wings. We dream of running away, of cheating … Continue reading
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Metal Lark
Metal Lark by Chloe N. Clark Let the birds scatter themselves, wings clicking like beads strung loose upon a thread, and realize that there are still some colors we cannot make from jars. If feathers can scratch, sculpted fine … Continue reading
Everything Old Becomes New
Jane Yolen Everything Old Becomes New Everything old becomes new before it dies. Chrysalis, a moment before the butterfly stretches those limp and limpid wings, exchanges breath with its quaking prisoner. The egg about to crack apart openly … Continue reading
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Poetry, January 2014 issue of Abyss & Apex
Introduction to the January 2014 issue of Abyss & Apex, Poetry I am exceedingly proud to begin my tenure with Abyss & Apex with the following slate of wonderful poems. The poems are arranged in an emotional or thematic arc … Continue reading
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Introduction by Abyss & Apex’s New Poetry Editor: John C. Mannone
Introduction by Abyss & Apex’s New Poetry Editor: John C. Mannone It is a distinct privilege and honor to serve as senior poetry editor for Abyss & Apex. I will be challenged to follow in … Continue reading
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“If Sappho Studied Egyptology” by Alicia Cole
Alicia Cole If Sappho Studied Egyptology winnowing grain from chaff, Anubis tosses three things aside: weak hearts, souls weighed down with sorrow, my lover who has killed me as surely as she’s stripped the olive tree Copyrighted … Continue reading
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“The Lift Equation” by Alicia Cole
Alicia Cole The Lift Equation “ProSEDS was…designed to utilize the tether-generated current to provide limited spacecraft power. It is intended that this information will be of use for future tether mission and experiment designers.” -NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center … Continue reading
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Three Scifaiku by Simon Kewin
Simon Kewin Three Scifaiku cold aphelion ten billion miles from home dead starship drifting luminous beings their touch flickering rainbows fill your mind with light stargate opening a jump to heaven or hell but no one knows which Copyrighted … Continue reading
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