Cinquain "Signs Before the Fall" had been exclusive to my speculative poetry collection (meaning it hadn't been previously published in a zine or antho) before I unpublished the collection.
Background of image featuring poem digital manipulation of image by Lukáš Jančička obtained from Pixabay. Free for use.
Speculative cinquain "Two-Dimensional Visitors" originally published in the webzine Aphelion, Feb 2009, and also published in Aphelion: The Best of 2009, Feb 2010.
Accompanying illustration previously unpublished.
Signs Before the Fall
By Richard H. Fay
Augur
tosses old bones
to read battle-omens
and proclaims a heart-rending doom —
defeat!
Two-Dimensional Visitors
By Richard H. Fay
Shadows
slipping sideways
through reality’s cracks
drift past my vision, then turn and
vanish.
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