Maria DePaul |
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The April Editor's Pick Poet is Maria DePaul Please feel free to email Maria at: marial.depaul@gmail.com |
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TEARING TO SHREDS Blood runs cold and bitter MANTIS LOVE When she was first bitten, Suddenly, what seemed We barely just met, but “There are worse ways “Our child will be the PLEASE DON’T EAT THE KRACKEN This is a call out to all good people everywhere: Resist The fishmongers propose it to offset the recent declines in These enormous and intelligent creatures hid from us Imperiling their existence won’t do anything but There is no way to forestall the inevitable or mask the truth: The depletion came to the point that we drove the From the moment of the discovery of their breeding grounds, Even if we follow through with the plan to “harvest” It is now unavoidable that the oceans will become so completely Nothing caused this situation but our selfish, wasteful ways, so It’s bad enough that we have resorted to devouring jellyfish blooms, Oh wait, the ships are capsizing, and the Kracken are using In a reversal of fortune, the Kracken have eaten the hunters, The predators became prey, and those who over-consumed were consumed. |
Maria DePaul is a Washington, DC-based writer whose work has been featured in many publications, including: Aphelion; Akashic’s Terrible Twosdays; Luna Station Quarterly; Nature Writing; Poetry Quarterly; The Review Review; Three Line Poetry; Violet Windows; and Wax Poetry and Art. In 2018, her work will be featured in Bindweed, Illumen and Scifaikuest.
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