Mask as Gargoyle by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] It was an N-95 with substance.Horns curled up threateningto self-cripple growing into eyesor in on themselvesuntil eating becomesimpossible. Yet it was a small thing of beautywith benign, kindly features,non-uniformly white,so much more thanphysical barrier,a totem lostits pole....

Out of Doors by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I have never taken a trip I regret.I revel beneath a same skygiven way to blue. To see river vast,relentless wash of waves, foot to ground,pedal to metal, has been a blissI would never have forgone.Choice to...

Malpais Mind by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] No Superfund site,raped by greed,scorch of blight,but water’s need clear from givenname, people few,too hard, been drivenaway from view of hard-cracked earthto lands of green,an easier birth.In beauteous scene rot can fester,trees aplunder,bodies will pestertill all asunder....

Flux/Flujo by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Magma travels below the land,red and resplendent, extending intoeach crack, powerful pressureexpanding tectonic plates.As long as it moves, tranquillity translates. [tabby title="Flujo"] Magma viaja abajo de la tierra,rojo y resplandeciente, se extiendaen cada grieta, su presiónesta expandiendo...

Augury by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Year ends turbid—cloudy skies,solar winds roar. Perseids pursuefalling, streaksky, radiant born as are weplenipotentiary,prone to disappoint. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado Writers annual anthology and winner of the 2020...