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"There is a lot to discover in Darkly Told. It doesn’t offer immediate answers, nor is it meant to do so, but it will repay careful listening. Hopefully, this chapbook will be successful enough to prompt Alicia Cole to make a few more. Fans are better off for its appearance." - Dead Reckonings No. 18
The fabulist of familiars
By Meg Smith
The bat shimmies along a tree limb,
and dreams nothing but moths
and a dark stream.
The owl checks its feathers,
and sings nothing but mice.
The snake undrapes its skin
like a lost marriage.
Only the cat comes forward,
in lynx eyes:
“I am your daughter.”
Meg Smith is a poet, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass.
Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, The Offering, Astropoetica, Illumen, Dreams & Nightmares, the Dwarf Stars anthology of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association and many more.
She is a past board member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! and produces the Edgar Allan Poe Show, honoring Poe's presence in Lowell, Mass.
She recently published a second book of poetry, Dear Deepest Ghost, available on Amazon.
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