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"Samhain," by Amar Shah, November 2021, Berlin
https://thesefearsomemarvels.blogspot.com/2021/11/samhain.html

Image: "The Golden Hour," by Tom Lee, CC BY-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/AKrFJm

Samhain

“The Destruction of Sennacherib” (1815)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Destruction_of_Sennacherib

“The Destruction of Sennacherib,” by Lord Byron

“Recurrence,” by Dorothy Parker

i am accused of tending to the past, by Lucille Clifton

“The Dark Night (XVIII),” by May Sinclair (1863-1946)

“The Fish,” by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

“In the blue hour,” by Amar Shah,
March 2022, Berlin, CC BY-NC 4.0

http://thesefearsomemarvels.blogspot.com/2022/03/in-blue-hour.html

In the blue hour

Image: "Anonymous Was a Woman" by Natascha Graham. https://www.nataschagrahamwriter.com/

“Angular Bones" was written by Jeanie Tomasko for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, March 2022, and selected as the Editor's Choice.

Jeanie Tomasko
https://www.jeanietomasko.com/thebluedogblog

ANGULAR BONES

I dreamed I gave you a snow globe
and after the snow snowed
and after the plows plowed
you stood inside watching

after the snow
which was blue and had come from all directions
you stood there watching
with your impossible spine

which was blue and directionless
and it made me weep
your impossible spine
and its question of whether

and what     it made me weep
this dream and you in the impossible globe
and the question of weather
as in snow as in what will happen

to this dream of an impossible globe
you in the snow your hair a perfect storm
as in snow as in what will happen
to your angular bones

you, snow, hair, perfect storm
in this impossible dream globe
and your beautiful angular bones
after the plows have plowed

— Jeanie Tomasko

Comment from the editor, Timothy Green: "This was an especially strong month of submissions, but reading top 25 over and over again, I kept coming back to this surprising pantoum. I could never have imagined the figure in the painting being trapped inside a snow globe, but once she was, she really was. There's also something about the mood of the poem, a resolute sadness to the repetition that matched the curve of the woman's spine—I couldn't stop re-reading it."

“Angular Bones,” by Jeanie Tomasko

https://www.rattle.com/magnifies-an-object-ten-times-by-taylor-mali/

Magnifies an Object Ten Times,” by Taylor Mali

When the borders break and no guard set
to hinder refuge in the arms of sister,
then once again, a family we will be,
the people of remembering, loving God.

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"When the borders break," banner image (2018) and poem (2021), by Amar Shah, CC BY-NC 4.0, https://www.instagram.com/p/BpUTBcXBcIN3KcwYGw_w6sNcDlZbGTi-l9LPVs0/

Portrait: "Untitled" (2021) by Fronx Wurmus, https://soundcloud.com/fronx

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