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Non-Zero Voodoo Dolls - New Poetry

1/5/2017

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Two new poems by poets making their debut in the Grievous Angel. We start with the tick tock heart of a Voodoo Doll from Colleen Anderson ​before heading towards Non-Zero with Josh Pearce.

Voodoo Doll

Be my voodoo doll
by moonlight let me stick you with pins
write notes in arcane symbols
etching my love into your skin
Let me dance and sing to the stars
the qualities you possess that I will too
I’ll cast a spell so you’ll love me well

Be my voodoo doll
silence you’ll keep as I stitch your lips
sealing your kiss forever inside
Immortal I’ll make you when I pack you with rags
switch your eyes for glass gems
a watch for your faithless tick tock heart
you and I will never be apart

Be my voodoo doll


by Colleen Anderson – a Vancouver, BC writer of prose, poetry, fiction and nonfiction whose poetry has been twice nominated for the Aurora Award, for the Rhysling, and won second place in the Crucible and Rannu competitions. She co-edited The Playground of Lost Toys, which was Aurora nominated, and will be editing Alice Unbound this year. Her speculative poetry collection Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths and Past Lives is available through Kelp Queen Press. www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com



Non-Zero

What is waiting
for us out there?

You look into
a large,
unlit room,
empty,
with a billion billion
billion
dust specks floating
in the air.

You sweep all these
planets, stars,
galaxies,
and nebulae together
into a corner.

From the middle
of the room
you cannot even
see this miniscule
ash pile
and you say

:nothing


by Josh Pearce – a San Francisco Bay Area writer appearing in Analog, Star*Line, and Perihelion, among others. You can find him on Twitter @fictionaljosh and at https://fictionaljosh.com
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