Happy spring, readers, writers, and other good people. (Or happy autumn to our friends in the southern hemisphere.) This month we’re pleased to bring you our usual blend of the surreal, the beautiful, and the terrible as expressed in myth and folklore. If you’ve come here looking for those things, you won’t be disappointed.
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One hand on the steering wheel
)
the screen sprung with light
the vibrate function alerted with each chant
was the message missing a colon
or was it your way of telling me that this was closed
I waited for a correction a meaningful emoji
each second a social media minute until I asked you
?
expecting you to lol or haha even correct me
with a knowing semi-colon P
reassure my twitching digits
when we first met I warned your distracted eyes
watched every reach towards the dashboard
your fingers performing – – a silhouette from the hazard lights
)
you left me with a closed bracket
an unfinished spasm
.
Surface tension
The ocean leaves me uncomfortable,
sea-sick sway, centre of a swell. Below
my family, twisted amphibians ,
snap at intimacy, check each hollow,
staunchly defend underground ancestors.
In single file they chart currents, display
their hearse…
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