Featured Poem: My Secret Flag

Tag: dick of the dead

My Secret Flag by Rachel Loden What a giant I must seem to them, an exhausted giant who dozes about her sewing. Asleep in mid-stitch, sorting the day’s haul of cinders, rubies, griefs— They were laughing and carrying on, their tiny silver needles flying in and out, tiny silver thimbles on their fingers. It’s no use of course, keeping secrets from them, when chattering … Read More Featured Poem: My Secret Flag

December 5, 2012 + Featured Poem, Poetry

Featured Poem: My Cupboards

by Shannon Fox

My Cupboards by Rachel Loden No ticture of seahorse. No cloudberry poultice. Don’t look there where pixels spill over the drawers, blow loose letters down the stairs. Bare, as they say. No one to sweep the word-hoard into Saturday. No broom. No sorceress.

September 28, 2012 + Featured Poem, Poetry

Featured Poem: A Lending Library

by Shannon Fox

A Lending Library by Rachel Loden This is a book of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie as watry and earthy; by W.F., Doctor in Divinitie. This book is held together by a rubber band. This book fell on the head of a girl in Perth, who read it and founded a new school of poetry. This book irritated Thoth, the Egyptian god of … Read More Featured Poem: A Lending Library

June 21, 2012 + Featured Poem, Poetry

Featured Poem: Dust Anniversary

by Shannon Fox

Dust Anniversary by Rachel Loden Write a secret on a piece of paper and burn it. This was so long ago, today it would have been our dust anniversary, our dross anniversary. No one can convince me that your hair was ever that color. No body lies in a drift of light and smiles so languorously. The clerk at the Hall of Records led … Read More Featured Poem: Dust Anniversary

May 29, 2012 + Featured Poem, Poetry

Featured Poem: The Idiad

by Shannon Fox

The Idiad by Rachel Loden Shall I write a poem about you and your epic struggle against stupidity? Feh. But if the brain is a city I too have rooms in the swampy part, surrounded by crocodiles. The monarch butterflies sail down from the Canadian Rockies to overwinter in Pacific Grove, pair off and fly away; They bruise me. I get crankier. If you … Read More Featured Poem: The Idiad

SHANNON FOX

Shannon is a multi-genre writer of stories spanning past, present, and future. Her work has appeared in DreamForge Anvil, Air & Nothingness Press, and Third Flatiron, among others. She has a B.A. in Literature-Writing from UC-San Diego. When not writing, she spends her time dancing with horses which she’s found is significantly easier to do with four feet instead of two. She lives in San Diego, CA, with her husband and three cats – one of whom may or may not be a demon in disguise.

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Featured Poem: My Secret Flag

Tag: dick of the dead