Strange Horizons

Poetry

Abductions

By: Dana Wilde

25 May 2020

Standing in a boxlike room. I see my feet. Yellow-blue light, like fog.

Poetry

The Fall of Snakes

By: Jong-Ki Lim

18 May 2020

One spring day, My grandfather caught the universe that just revived.

Poetry

secrets from a telepath

By: Ashley Bao

11 May 2020

there are emerald hummingbirds at the window / snapping their beaks against the fairyglass / but she will never let them in

Poetry

OCTOBER 2026: THE END OF THE PICNIC

By: Raimo Kangasniemi

4 May 2020

in my silver mask and my yellow gun / still humming with golden bees

Poetry

young Death is in love

By: L. D. Lewis

20 Apr 2020

She started this war for you, you know / The boy who taught Death / Romantic gestures have their roots / In violence.

Poetry

A Spirit Friend

By: Jasmeet Dosanjh

13 Apr 2020

The slippery fish, while I think / Has begun to nibble at my toes

Poetry

Growing Chair

By: Shuyi Yin

6 Apr 2020

Pom-pom balls attached to yarn, growing like millions of dandelion seed-heads waving in a field.

Poetry

Finding His Way into the Dark

By: Brian Beatty

30 Mar 2020

what the map said was once a buffalo jump

Poetry

Under and Down

By: Camille Louise Goering

30 Mar 2020

Between us, there are threads of doubt, unwinding spools like spider webs across the scalded earth

Poetry

The Wolf

By: Kaily Dorfman

30 Mar 2020

Fixing my pipes, for the plumber, / is a simple thing. He whistles gently as I tell him / about the yellow eyes I saw last night.