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.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

PJ Swift

Spirit of the Moon

With its eternal, cyclical presence, the moon had provided perennial inspiration for countless tales and stories, especially when full and shining brightly over a darkened world. But it is also at these times when this constant companion is most fickle and parsimonious. It hangs in the sky, luminescent yet unreachable, close yet impenetrable. In full view, but mysterious. Enigmatic. Mocking. The moon provides no story, no inspiration, and no excuses. It just hovers as an inescapable reminder that one is stuck to the ground, full of dreams but with no means of transport. Haunting and looming. And then, night by night, the moon is no more. Just a specter and a memory and a promise of an illustrious return. But where are the stories? Will they, too, arise? At last?

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