Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology, Issue 1, can be read in full at the above link. Each individual contribution will be shared here as well, one every week.
In Passing
By Linda Copman
Out of silence comes the sound of a single frog Calling in darkness for his kin, someone to fill the hole of night with honey. The sound of bells jingle on a door as it opens in the wind to let ghosts pass through the somnolence of this year into next. Memories fade like ink in the rain, characters that cannot be read, cannot speak of their pain, whose ears no longer hear the sound of jingling, eyes see no twinkling, no kin in the distance where sky bleeds into sea. They stretch fingerless hands to the living who betrayed and abandoned them as they, too, betrayed and abandoned this life where we speak our lonely thoughts, reaching out for skin. Improbably we sing, backs to the wind, searching for something to warm us from within.
Linda Copman is a poet, mother, and lover of all things wild. She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and works as a Communications Specialist for Cornell University.