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I did not receive an email to announce the release of their October issue so I don’t have a date of publication for this one. Issue 2k23, vol. vii, no. 3 of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine include an experimental poem of mine, vOoDoo mOtHeR. Yeah, it’s a bit different but I hope you’ll like it.

Ever & always, THANK YOU for looking!

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soft-as-butter

leather red flats

behind a holiday

plate-glass window

entice me

to venture inside.

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eagerly I try them on,

so smitten am I,

my Discover card

wastes no time

completing

the transaction.

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my friend mocks

& criticizes me

for my impulsiveness,

standing there, next

to the cash register

in her dirty, smelly,

swollen bare feet.