Happy Tuesday!

Today's highlight/sneak peek post features two poems that will be in the digital and print editions of the anthology.

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Barbara Anna Gaiardoni submitted a set of tanka poems, here is "Failed stars"

 

empty space 

measured in light years 

our wishes and thoughts


Here is the beginning of Kyra Sherwood's "Afterimages (a cozy haunting)"

on autumn nights the house would come alive in layers,

like thin almost-voices slipping through static. 

there were ghosts under the wallpaper, brown and faded,

sometimes with a faintly floral print or a few stripes 

where a pattern used to be. we found a phantom curled

around the pipes in the basement once, and others

that clung to lightbulbs in the attic and the kitchen,

a fine mist between glass and filament. the lights only flickered

on special occasions. we thought sometimes 

the bulbs burned out faster than they ought, but 

that was a small sacrifice and we didn’t mind. 
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