Archive for the ‘ Jabberwocky 5 ’ Category

Dealing the Deck of War

3rd March 2011 | Closed

by Jen­nifer Crow War touch­es the mys­ter­ies, reorders the deck of liv­ing and dead as it shuf­fles and deals out the end of futures. Sol­dier sits in a tent, hat pushed back over the remnants


Letting Him Slither

2nd March 2011 | Closed

Medusa con­sid­ers her lover, Posei­don by KL Pereira He likes to let down my hair, his water-cool fin­gers unfurl­ing  the ser­pents and their silken tongues til their scaly bod­ies scrape the sandy floor of the seabed, that corn­flower room where mon­sters make love.


Reap the Whirlwind

2nd March 2011 | Closed

by Rose Lem­berg   The music that bespelled the nightin­gale to sing two songs—one for all oth­er mor­tals, one for lovers revealed its heart to me— come, my beloved, the wind will break the win­dows of your fear,


Curses

2nd March 2011 | Closed

by Alexan­dra Sei­del A dead sigh cloaks the night like the wed­ding dress the bride fog and mist con­verge to form cur­tains for your eyes the wind knows words, learned them on a whim and wings that are no angel’s wings make you think of heaven’s chained up gates


Black Arrows from the Golden Bow

2nd March 2011 | Closed

by Erik Amund­sen To a weary mind, you might say this voice was the soft­ness of a bed on sore mus­cles, a grace, a gen­eros­i­ty. And who could blame you, to fear no sirens in the dry places, where oceans are but echoes in white sand