New poems in Peacock Journal

I have a new group of poems

in

Peacock Journal   

What I really like about this magazine

is that it asks each author

to provide

A Statement on Beauty

Their motto:

"Beauty First"

5 sections from a long poem

Called

The Close Dark

A poem about my encounters

with

Mary/Kuan Yin
(goddess of compassion)

and Kali
(destroyer of worlds)

Kali

 

and their reconciliation.

Here's half of the first section.

It begins in a stone hut

in the Cevennes Mountains

with a fever vision of

Mary/Kuan Yin:

Kuan Yin

1. Cevennes Mountain Hut

      

Frozen wind through a chink in stone

sent snowflakes over the bed; cold,

cold, Mary in a dark corner, wrapped

in her blue cloak of stars. Ice melted

on burning skin. Fever-eyes, fever-mind,

drawn to her twilight blue: the blue

before true night; the blue between stars,

when Venus still shines; light's blue

melancholy when traveling that blue

distance, sun to sun, across the horror

of the blue-void…

You can find the rest of the sections

here.

A Strange Kind of Beauty: New Story/Interzone #269

New Sci-fi Story

in the March/April

Issue of

Interzone 

Called

A Strange Kind of Beauty

(On the Interzone site: scroll to the bottom of the page to order an individual copy.

If you want a digital copy, you can order one from 
Smashwords here.

Or from Weightless Books here.)

illustrated by Martin Hanford

"The desert carrion bird has many names. Its common name is scoryax. There are some in the Kahtt who call the bird water prophet because it leads us from water source to water source. Most call it shit-beak because it is a scavenger of the dead and smells like shit. I sometimes call it ghost seer because its eyes seem to penetrate all surfaces, see the hidden dark beneath. No one walks away from an encounter with a scoryax unscathed. Its black eyes were forged in the underworld…"

Including stories by 
Sean McMullen, Tim Akers, Richard E. Gropp, 

& Steve Rasnic Tem

Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
of these stories
by Des Lewis
can be found here. 

Witch going to the Sabbath/Remedios Varo/1957