sijo from a spaceship escaping a dying planet

Poetry

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By: Annie Bolger

Issue: 3 November 2025

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what season is space? the child asks
her father. is it winter?

her fingers walk the borders of the porthole.
no, he says sharply —

he softens. it can’t be. with so
many suns — it must be spring.

About Annie Bolger

Annie Bolger is a poet living in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a winner of the Lois Morrell poetry contest, and her work is published or forthcoming in HAD, Rust & Moth, Nixes Mate Review, shoegaze literary, and elsewhere. Find her at annieb.ink.

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