Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words spirit and/or specter, totaling up to 150 lines in length including stanza breaks, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PDT on October 20th. No PDF's please. Color and B&W artwork are also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Spirits and Specters will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Alicia Mathias

 


ELEVEN GEESE


After i drew them/ the flock flew fast from my open hand/ honking through Autumn/ while i wondered what they might be saying/ i traced their echoes/ through mid-air/ while the night's setting/ sun turned our whole sky pink/ where beaks still released/ staccatoed notes/ till their long throats became faint/ and i flapped up/ following/ their disappearance


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