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The eponymous ouroboros, representative of renewal, rebirth, and the cycle of life and death, can also represent eternity, unity, and the interconnectedness of all things. With her ravishing collec…

Leaving We invent our own ways of leaving.It is morning in Manila,we begin to dress, surveyour bodies as friends can.Our lives are revealed in scars we have acquired.The accident slashed across the…

In the fifth line of “It’s San Francisco Summer,” poet stevie redwood calls readers to imagine “a fist of rage; a fist of roses; the fist erected / in solidarity or demand.” Like much of redwood’s …

In the fifth line of “It’s San Francisco Summer,” poet stevie redwood calls readers to imagine “a fist of rage; a fist of roses; the fist erected / in solidarity or demand.” Like much of redwood’s …

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Ghost PuppetI carry an apology on the tip of my tonguefor being happyand meaning to be.A pretend seer,I already had made-up memoriesto survive a future without you.Still, their lack is a special br…

Portrait of Hegel's Wife in Treble … and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. — George Eliot, Middlemarch She watched him chase itacross his violin, the furious bowswirl...

Small Godssomehow I built a world / where all my sins / don’t exist // where love is more than / a feeling made to sell movies // where a wedding is a celebration / without a breath of prayer // inste...

Submission Guidelines Paraselene seeks to publish work that achieves both a high level of craft and a sense of self-assuredness. We are drawn to work that is emotionally resonant and challenges conven...

Issue #1 Lindsay D’Andrea“states of matter”“the path” Maëlle Keita“Ghost Puppet” Ken Cathers“moth”“he was the brother” Savannah Cooper“Small Gods” Caleb Edmondson“Relationship Poem” Lindsey J. Medina“...