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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
    • 1 Poem by Jarrett Moseley
    • 3 Poems by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
you and me in a wood, though neither did, both of us wanted to


ghost pine tremble, under a light reflected off moon’s mountains
ours are snowcapped, silhouetted in the background, no bird call


only a hush, a subtle crackling static of starlight itching to arrive
no footsteps in the night, a silence inside of a silence, the silence


falls into, nesting dolls of oblivion echo for an eternity, as image
after image of you comes back to me, words, as strays, come too


inimical, comical, recalling how i wept, in pain, or with laughter
at all the damage your beauty caused me, you and me in a wood,


no shadow of doubt, as it pertains to eternity, i long for certainty
i struggle to remember, on nights when these ghost pine tremble

Stephen Jackson lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. His poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Chronotope, Grey Sparrow Journal, International Human Rights Art Festival Publishes, The Inflectionist Review, Impossible Archetype, and pacificREVIEW. Please follow him at https://twitter.com/fortyoddcrows

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