Black Petals Issue #103, Spring, 2023

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All the Sky Is Waiting to Be Told: Fiction by Daniel I. Clark
Fire Sale: Fiction by Christopher Pate
Kregah: Fiction by Ron Capshaw
The Beauty of Machinery: Fiction by Hayden Seay
The Cold Sore: Fiction by Chris McGuinness
The Lake: Fiction by Harper Hargis
The Price: Fiction by Josh Hanson
The Tailbone Is Connected to the Hipbone: Fiction by Michael Fowler
The Thorn Tree: Fiction by Lawrence Buentello
They: Fiction by Tony Ayers
Work Experience: Fiction by Martin Taulbut
Burns: 3 Connected Drabbles by Hillary Lyon
Grandma Medusa: Flash Fiction by M. L. Fortier
I'm So Sorry, Computer: Flash Fiction by M. L. Fortier
Invasive: Flash Fiction by Paul Radcliffe
Jumper: Flash Fiction by Kurt Hohmann
Personal Things: Flash Fiction by Cindy Rosmus
The Good Doctor: Flash Fiction by Ron Capshaw
Another Tomato Invasion, Again: Poem by I. N. Shimabuku
Curse of the Crazies: Poem by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Ghosted: Poem by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Meteor Moon: Poem by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Halo Around the Sun: Poem by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Maker's Image: Poem by Bindi Lavelle
Specimen: Poem by Bindi Lavelle
Blood-stained Jupiter: Poem by Meg Smith
Cat Science: Poem by Meg Smith
Mortician's Powder: Poem by Meg Smith
The Pinups of the Afterlife: Poem by Meg Smith
Dark Gate Park: Poem by Meg Smith
A turntable fabricates hope during the apocalypse in 3 parts: Poem by Dennis Bagwell
Reverend Mother Munchausen: Poem by Sophia Wiseman-Rose
Whispers of Winter: Poem by Ashley N. Goodwin
A Man Is Nothing Without His Wife: Poem by Ashley N. Goodwin

Meg Smith: Blood-stained Jupiter

Blood-stained Jupiter

 

Meg Smith

 

 

When you turn,

in your white and scarlet

clouds and secret storms,

a hundred worldlets gossip,

but do not love.

When, at last, a comet's ice

falls into your fire dream,

it tears, and devours.

But you will grasp

something more -- a true world,

newly-born, with

silent eyes, but sure breaths.

They will call you, "home."

No longer will you answer,

"I am the star that failed."

Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. 

In addition to previously appearing in Black Petals, her poetry and fiction have appeared in Dark Moon Digest, Aphelion, Blood Moon Rising Magazine, Sirens Call, and many more. 

She is author of five poetry books and a short fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.com

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