Thanks to this month’s contributors!

This month’s prompt is:

a whole bunch of really, really old books

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Bear (Host of With Strange Aeons and Whatever with Jason Soto):

Apolloistic

Ghosts of scattered leaves
stain sidewalks from the forebears of
Winter who carry a weight
known by the sound of bell tolls -

a spiritual form of Muzak
rings through carcass-heads holding up constants.
Resolution is an invention
brought by a change in hemisphere.

Gospel whispers in my ear:
Creeping things of creeping earth,
laughter brought laughter,
justice follows justice.

God lives in the space between your teeth;
Heaven is just right of Dixie.
It’s so quiet when sleep comes easier next to you,
pile of books stacked on the space heater.