Strange Horizons

Poetry

We Let You Live

By: Laura Cranehill

8 Aug 2020

When your people came down from the stars / we put you in jails and cellars and basements

Poetry

This poem is a dead zone

By: Krishnakumar Sankaran

3 Aug 2020

the freedom offered by thrashing four limbs, by holding your mouth perfectly ajar like a grotto spitting bubbles

Poetry

Coloring the Sun You Know

By: JD Fox

20 Jul 2020

The sun is really white you know / Because it's light / I know

Poetry

Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?

By: Kimberly Kaufman

13 Jul 2020

blending in with the crumbling paint on the cabinets that never closed, not fully

Poetry

After

By: Thomas White

6 Jul 2020

Landing feels like getting off a trampoline, / The weightlessness fading to muscle memory

Poetry

Mercy

By: Robert K. Walters

29 Jun 2020

in the name / of Mercy / I wished a wish―which the Universe soon granted―

Poetry

A Mountain on My Back

By: Niloufar-Lily Soltani

29 Jun 2020

a quake fractured my wall, / but my portraits didn’t fall. / They disappeared one by one

Poetry

Beasts of New France

By: Millie Ho

29 Jun 2020

And on the terrace: Célia. Dark fur shining like tar in the moonlight, snout long and wrinkled.

Poetry

Things I Do to Remember Home

By: Neha Maqsood

22 Jun 2020

I can’t / help friending you on Facebook just to show how great my / life’s gotten

Poetry

The Doors of a Drowned City

By: Preston Grassmann

15 Jun 2020

The memories of the lost / turning in their burnished locks