Content Warning: dark themes
Jenny Wong - Ghost Reservoir on a Mid-Autumn Night
Leaves find their fire
on the edge of an aging summer
just before their fallen bodies
mar a mirror’s surface,
little pyres
extinguished
by a pinch of cold.
Wind whispers,
enchants ripples to stars
as water wraps
floating memories of summer
in shrouds of fading cloud
and silent moonglow,
adding to the ghosts
it already carries.
Nearby, the town sleeps
sealed beneath
the shingles of their boathouses,
still too young to understand
the day can be such a predatory thing
as morning slinks
beneath curved earth,
another attempt to capture
the round light that exists
in darkness.
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Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander beneath the moonlight are Tokyo alleys and Parisian cemeteries. Recent publications include Briefly Zine, Splonk and Janus Literary. She resides in the foothills of Alberta, Canada and tweets @jenwithwords
Artwork: La Luna by Wendy Hess
Wendy Hess is from Berkeley, California. As an Artist, Photographer and Author, she enjoys the Gothic, Classic, Humorous, and Bizarre side of Life. Her work has been featured in Cauldron Anthology, Seaborne, Floresta, and Habibi Magazines.