Strange Horizons

Poetry

A Measured Light

By: Jim Racobs

23 Jan 2023

Listening to the radio, I heard that the star Regulus is 79 light years from the Earth.

Poetry

Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in Its State of Rest

By: Samuel A. Betiku

23 Jan 2023

The ghosts you hear across / the blackened fields are only smothered stars

Poetry

shit you might see + hear if you time travel with juju:

By: Victor Forna

16 Jan 2023

—look at all they’ve done —the silence of the gods + the roar of betrayal

Poetry

The Witch of Pig Island

By: Anna Cates

16 Jan 2023

your armpits tangled owl nests

Poetry

In a Parallel Carterhaugh,

By: R. F. Hovis

9 Jan 2023

when teind-time came, there was no one to save him, save himself.

Poetry

birangona song in a walmart parking lot

By: Lydia Abedeen

9 Jan 2023

for what are bones if not seeds waiting to be planted, what are bodies if not secrets promised, what is war if not a waiting harvest

Poetry

Campus

By: Michelle Wirth

2 Jan 2023

I tried to do what I was nominally hired to do. I tried to grow knowledge trees

Poetry

An Orchard of failed Sciences

By: Nnadi Samuel

2 Jan 2023

I walk the cyborgs to their slaughterhouse

Poetry

How to Skin Your Wolf

By: G.E. Woods

19 Dec 2022

The wolf will take you up in dance. / It will take you up in danger. / It will take you up / in ecstasy.

Poetry

daphne

By: Isaac Miranda

19 Dec 2022

biology and botany tell me that roots don’t look like this