The special edition of CERASUS Poetry Magazine collecting some of the best work from the Chapbook Competition has now been published.

EVEN IF WE WANT TO LOVE…

so I ask the nesting swans
are we asleep or dreaming
or just in some state of deepdowness

does longing linger like love does
does it thicken the air as mist will
and what of desire’s arrival, sudden
and arrogant around the borders of vigilance

I need uninterrupted stories of stars
to fill up the empty parts of me

though love may end in bitter
hunger and longing will endure
like prayers
and the searching necks
of Great Egrets

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