Strange Horizons

Poetry

Beast

By: Jenny Blackford

17 Jul 2017

One furred toe wore the wedding band / I gave him. Tips of sheathed claws / pricked at my skin.

Poetry

The Slowest Way to Hades

By: Jungmin Kim

10 Jul 2017

Just to meet our eyes will be to face a Gorgon; / to hear our cackles will be to feel / hyenas tearing at the hamstring.

Poetry

Ocean Heart

By: Maddie Phelps

3 Jul 2017

"No," my mother says. Ear pressed to my chest, / she counts in time to the chambers’ moans. / "Fill it with salt water, so that only / those who thrive there may stay."

Poetry

Love, the Time Machine, Love Again

By: Duke Kimball

19 Jun 2017

We skipped over years / like stones / in all directions.

Poetry

Hullabaloo in Thambapani

By: Rushda Rafeek

12 Jun 2017

The first time that morning, your face stole / from rasps lanterned: chariot of sun / racing gold in the glare of rays

Poetry

The Monster-Maker's Bride

By: Meera Jhala

5 Jun 2017

He measured and poured. Shaping, caressing, / he coaxed me into being.

Poetry

Hot

By: Cislyn Smith

29 May 2017

The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha, / tapping her foot impatiently / while she waits in line.

Poetry

Time to Want

By: E. Kristin Anderson

22 May 2017

Quiet, I was getting ready / to be that lovely spill / of golden light

Poetry

How to Breathe On Venus

By: Symantha Reagor

15 May 2017

Should you chose to stay, / make sure to adjust your life expectancy accordingly.

Poetry

I Fight Monsters

By: Richard Ford Burley

8 May 2017

it howls / the beast black-backed and fanged / his language languishing