Lords
of Extinction
Meg Smith
Count
out the
bones
in
a falling
rhyme,
come
down, come
down,
dance
in the flare
of
the
purple light.
Gush
away, breath
of perfume,
race
with the
tides, into boiling
blood
ocean myth
fire
and
this then is
everything, within, without,
of amen.
Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living
in Lowell, Mass. In addition to previously appearing in Black Petals, her poetry
has appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding,
Poetry Bay, The Horror Zine, Bewildering Stories, Strange Horizons, Dreams
& Nightmares, The Dwarf Stars anthology of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Poetry Association, and many more.
She is the author of five poetry books, and her first collection
of short fiction, The Plague Confessor,
is due out in fall 2020. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.com.
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