Authors /
Laura Wang
Balaam in the stable
These days, though I stuff her manger
with the softest thistles, fill her trough
with dawn-clear water, it’s not enough...
May 2, 2019
Jonah’s fish
I was hungry, and he thrashed
like a hurt turtle, paddling nowhere
on his sprawling, knobby joints....
March 28, 2019
Ewe to shepherd
And won’t you slow your pace, and let us look
at least upon your shadow as you move?
Your darkened form walks all too swiftly through...
April 22, 2015
Nearing Lazarus’ tomb
He’d seen it all. Swathes of nothingness
spun into stars, the slapping of the first fin onto land,
and now these creatures, by far the cleverest...
June 15, 2014
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