Free Verse Revolution:

Navila Nahid (@seasalt.rose) wrote a stunning piece inspired by the Issue IV teaser prompt ‘chthonic love’.

Issue IV’s theme will be announced on Saturday, 9th October and submissions will reopen!

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(3:00am) by Navila Nahid

3:00am

and we’re through

the veil

of midnight

and its portal tease;

 

3:00am

and we’re dirt

sifting through

the forgotten dark

of Erebus;

 

3:00am

and we’re falling

through the oblivion

of peace — it’s

not white light

and tunnel

but deprivation

of absence

and completion;

 

3:00am

and we’re dripping

into the sin

of folding corners into holy books;

 

3:00am

and we are time

and its honey-crawl

into the upside

down;

 

3:00am

and it’s you

and me,

deleted

and together,

together

and alone.