Content Warning: death, dark themes
LE Francis - Alembic
If I am honest my heart is
worm-veins, careful-woven
to come-undone, fiber-by-fiber, corpse
fingers entwined, grasp & ungrasp,
you came the closest to this rattling
death, stopped my heart with a jerk
at the end of the rope. You & your broken bow
smile, your eyes like mercury enthroned
in the infinite womb of the cosmos, gods
willing these broken atoms to mend — ask
if I am honest, my heart is careful-undone
fingers holding the kite-string taut, broken
bow, snapped in her detriment, if I am honest
my heart is with you.
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LE Francis is a recovering arts journalist writing poetry & fiction of varying length from the rainshadow of the Washington Cascades. Find her online at nocturnical.com.
Artwork: On The Other Side Of Death by Joshua Effiong
A Nigerian by birth and Studying Science Laboratory Technology at University of Calabar. Joshua Effiong is a lover of poetry & here he finds freedom. His works has appeared/forthcoming in Eboquills, Kalahari Review, Shallow Tales Review, Rough Cut Press, Madrigal Press, Warning lines, Hearth Magazine, Mausoleum Press etc. Author of Autopsy of Things Left Unnamed. He also find joy in photography and reading. Connect with him via Instagram @josh.effiong and twitter @JoshEffiong