Over the Braai by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] This fire has been lovingly preparedstarting small with paper, shavings, kindling,only later adding logsto this testament of trees. These coals glow with a life of their own,gray ashy surface dots sun of them,contained orange motion,burning themselves to extinction....

We Makest by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] Looking like some prehistoric trilobite viewed from stratosphere, Batagaika crater expanding 10 meters a year, permafrost melting gateway to underground. Chorus of carbon adds to haze in our gaze,heat on street, death to meat,no entreat Our Father now....

Me by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] You can feel it,The itch,twitch,burn of muscles,tight against swole,panic of constraint, skin-splitting,ooze, serum smear into something new,blaze into the blue, emerging askewto stretch, straighten, claimsky, try, this iteration,I have longedto be—Me. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Celia Turner is a...

Heartbeat In Time by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] Expulsed from withinwe gasp at last,the shock of light,cold—caressof womb waterno more,floating to flailing,drowning in airuntil we inspire. We live, laugh,suffer, cry,triumph, sing,expire and die. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado...

Enigma and Erasure by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] There is awe in this world,Gobstopping beauty somehowCircled with science. You can lose yourself,Overcome by all,Subsist in a brain Jarred free of the me.Don’t touch it.Let it be. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet...