This month we offer one secret in the mirror.
Next month we
GASP
Submission guidelines can be found here.
Secret in the Mirror
(After Albert Rios)
An old, upcycled thing
I stare into, not sure age
spots belong to it or me. That
Milky Way shows itself
in the secret silver. A star chart
to navigate the world, life by;
these days too often with lights
on instead of in soothing shadow.
And everything that should
come clear is somehow
from other galaxies. Not
toothpaste splotches, hair
product overspray. But watermarks
etched like forehead wrinkles
and worry lines and dark
eye-circles here and now.
Still squinting into foreground
glass in search of figures, codes
or runes to make some sense
of how we come to things.
Barbara E. Hunt has publications across North America, U.K., Europe, Scandinavia and Australia to her credit, most recently with Pacific Review (San Diego), Sublimation (Sweden) and The Mersey Review (Liverpool). Work is accessible (free) on WATTPAD. Her climate-change collection, Rowing Across the North Atlantic was recently released.
This month we offer one secret in the mirror.
Next month we
GASP
Submission guidelines can be found here.
Secret in the Mirror
(After Albert Rios)
An old, upcycled thing
I stare into, not sure age
spots belong to it or me. That
Milky Way shows itself
in the secret silver. A star chart
to navigate the world, life by;
these days too often with lights
on instead of in soothing shadow.
And everything that should
come clear is somehow
from other galaxies. Not
toothpaste splotches, hair
product overspray. But watermarks
etched like forehead wrinkles
and worry lines and dark
eye-circles here and now.
Still squinting into foreground
glass in search of figures, codes
or runes to make some sense
of how we come to things.
Barbara E. Hunt has publications across North America, U.K., Europe, Scandinavia and Australia to her credit, most recently with Pacific Review (San Diego), Sublimation (Sweden) and The Mersey Review (Liverpool). Work is accessible (free) on WATTPAD. Her climate-change collection, Rowing Across the North Atlantic was recently released.
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