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Category Archives: Poetry
They Came in One Huge Wave
Zebulon Huset They Came in One Huge Wave Like a susurration of starlings the alien ships swirled across the sky in intricate patterns, close as bumbling bees swarming yet never colliding. Our planes weren’t destroyed, but avoided by the beetle-looking … Continue reading
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Introduction to Issue 87 [3Q2023] Poetry
Introduction to Issue 87 [3Q2023] Poetry First, please note that simultaneous submissions for poetry are no longer accepted since responses to poets with acceptances are completed before the end of the month after closure of the submission window. [Though I … Continue reading
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I’ll Cry Later
Lauren McBride I’ll Cry Later the sound of hail struggling into an oversized spacesuit yours, my love pounding our tiny star ship ship’s air leaking seconds left to seal the suit hull breach raging micrometeor storm ripped through my suit … Continue reading
Kinnordy
Manuel W Balaguer-Cortés Kinnordy At Kinnordy, the loch is old and her memory intact: She remembers her former dominion where she spread out, large and long, in wetlands and water courses. She remembers how far then she could feel the … Continue reading
The Stars are watching us
Richard Weaver The Stars are watching us with intense interest tonight, staring back as we stare at them. The James Webb telescope has gone live a million miles away and made life on Earth as mundane as Velveeta cheese. It … Continue reading
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On the Shore
Denise Dumars On the Shore A black wind slows the movement of the frosted, ink-dark waves two moons tell tides in tug-of-war strange shapes both dead and living decorate the distant dunes. Sere sluggish beast appears to know just where … Continue reading
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Big Rig Off Dauphin Island, AL
Ann Thornfield-Long Big Rig Off Dauphin Island, AL They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and the … Continue reading
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Twilight Pulses
Chris Wood Twilight Pulses Nimbus clouds shroud and veil the sunset. Orange and violet halos, shadow the lightning, silent and electric. Fuchsia splashes the evening with memories ricocheting like electrons across time, scattering images of you. I remember your dark … Continue reading
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Missing
Marge Simon Missing On a morning stroll I see my mother in the impossible now, fused with misted sunlight. She stands quietly in a bright almost dress, a bit of fashion unbecoming even if it were real, but she’d never … Continue reading
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Boudreaux Responds to NASA June 2079 (Earth)
Arden Eli Hill Boudreaux Responds to NASA June 2079 (Earth) The sweet water of Europa. The golden sphere of Io. Send someone other than my descendants. We are still dirt-bound, wrestling with the bones of our dishonorable ancestors. To be … Continue reading
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