THE WINGED MOON
POSEIDON
Charles Gammon
What does it mean to flood a bit of Earth
after your arms open
like tower cranes, tsunami -wide, and turn the sea -
where we look to for answers,
and the winds, which we count as miracles in summertime,
into a new day’s violence?
Is it really you touchy king
in those moments you give for treasonous thoughts
of a love on dry land?
Wishing each time for something out of your control.
AN ATOM IS A THING
Emily Laubham
I wish I was an inkling, little note inside
a molded journal, baby octopus at sea,
swishing, swirling mollusk, wanting only
to know itself.
To separate creates space time,
cephalopods. Pleated dimensions from here to next week.
Unfolding eternity may feel like an ending
but really it’s a Genesis
of Things.
I am a cosmic sadness.
A murmuration of birds.
Illusionary figments within and without.
The quantum foam of it all,
saying really, I am alone.
never
ART FLOW by JULIA BIGGS
Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Annie Journal, Sídhe Press, Streetcake Magazine and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897 or via her website: juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Charles Gammon has worked in higher education for the last two years, and this year will begin a master’s degree program with a concentration in literary studies. Most of his writing is an attempt to capture moments in everyday observations or experiences, as well as general complexities of human life, America, and diverse parts of history. Charles enjoys reading Whitman, Proust, Henry Dumas, Limón, and Faulkner.
Emily Laubham is a writer in Pittsburgh, PA. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in publications including Contrary Magazine, Ping-Pong Literary Magazine, Menacing Hedge, Autumn Sky Poetry, Anti-heroin Chic, Scapegoat Review, and Hyacinth Review. She was recently published as a contributor in the poetry anthology A Critique of the Gods and featured as Poet of the Quarter in Rough Diamond Poetry.