THE MOIRA
by Dr. Mel Waldman
The Moira
watches/follows for She is destiny/fate
the
One that has spun the threads of our vanishing
days & so we rush far away
&
now gazing at/consuming the old human trudging
through the snow
hunched
over in a harrowing moment invisible in the
storm & still unseen
when
crepuscular creatures rise at dawn possessing
only the scent of the forgotten
the Lady
engulfs/swallows the fallen
Time
eats the antediluvian being with no race,
class, religion, gender, identity
or
attributes except Old Age
a
mortal in metamorphosis running out of time
& space a moribund vision in Moira’s eyes
inside
life’s cage Now it is this one in the snow Yet
tomorrow it is you the old devoured one
forgotten/
invisible with nowhere else to go always you
Dr. Mel Waldman is a psychologist, poet,
and writer whose stories have appeared in numerous magazines including
HARDBOILED DETECTIVE, ESPIONAGE, THE SAINT, PULP METAL MAGAZINE, and AUDIENCE.
His poems have been widely published in magazines and books including A NEW
ULSTER, CLOCKWISE CAT, CRAB FAT LITERARY MAGAZINE, ESKIMO PIE, INDIANA VOICE
JOURNAL, LIQUID IMAGINATION, THE BROOKLYN LITERARY REVIEW, BRICKPLIGHT, SKIVE
MAGAZINE, ODDBALL MAGAZINE, PABLO LENNIS, POETRY PACIFIC, POETICA, RED FEZ,
SQUAWK BACK, SWEET ANNIE & SWEET PEA REVIEW, THE JEWISH LITERARY JOURNAL,
THE JEWISH PRESS, THE JERUSALEM POST, HOTMETAL PRESS, MAD SWIRL, HAGGARD &
HALLOO, ASCENT ASPIRATIONS, YELLOW MAMA, THE BITCHIN’ KITSCH, SOUL-LIT,
TWO DROPS OF INK, and NAMASTE FIJI: THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF
POETRY. A past winner of the literary GRADIVA AWARD in Psychoanalysis, he
was nominated for a PUSHCART PRIZE in literature and is the author of 11 books.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails
from the Ironbound section of
Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like Anybodys
from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night Fever.
Her noir/horror/bizarro
stories have been published in the coolest places, such as Shotgun
Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The Rye
Whiskey Review, Under the Bleachers, and Rock and a Hard
Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama. She’s published seven collections
of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal
rights advocate. She has recently branched out into photo illustration.
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