Featured Poetry
Many thanks to all the short story writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantatsic poems that we have selected as feature publications.
If you would like us to consider your poetry for a future feature, please submit here.
Enjoy!
Abstraction
By Grace Lynn
Watery moonrise between mangroves. All day cogs turn, roaring to trap labyrinths of noise. Our research is over, calibrated in shadow.
History is a Verb in the Downpour
By Grace Lynn
Rain on the ridge breaks ripe apricots of sunset clouds. It hammers larks, bobcats, peonies on the hen’s head. History flows out of the stallion’s back. Moonlight cracks its latticework, drips silver smelt on the face of black rock like a story that forgets how it’s told. Stars drop, one by one, as pebbles aflame on grazing livestock. The wind cooks the fragrance of centuries. Lightyears, ten trillion yesterdays, the stone age in its throat.
A Mind's Graffiti
By Alice Evans
If you forget, I will recollect how you made me feel— your grace, your strength to resist, the places you lived: between the cracks where wildflowers grow, pushing through asphalt, re-seeded, clambering toward better days
The Sky That Holds Them
By Méabh Cusack
Two birds float in the hush of a dying light, wings stretched wide across a sky that once held everything. They're not flying away,