NEW POETRY

(photo c/o ancientpages.com)

The pages of sages

Down through the ages

Are plucked ripe with luck and Logos by mages

Who then hand unfair fistfuls of gifts to readers most unusually unsquare,

Containing uncanny answers for listening listeners who dare:

Answers dressed in pinstriped ribbons and gild-paper wrapping

That (once ripped open) tap into a kind of magical (but muddled) time travel

Full of hap, riddles, and knots to unravel

By those lost in the love of farming

Fresh vines grown from wild languages

Amid all uncertainties, tangles, and anguishes,

Farmed there where the weather marks the least of all changes.

Christopher Landrum’s story “The Age of Insomnia” was featured at our main site. He lives in Austin, Texas and writes about what he reads at Bookbread.com.