“Throw away notions of science and magic and grown-up definitions you don’t need anymore.”
by Emily Fox
Tag Archives: Poetry
Magdalena the Mermaid
“Magdalena the Mermaid
was a good witch,”
by Ana Merino, translated by Toshiya Kamei
Merbraids
” Come to me, sailor, come
to me, sailor. Come.”
by Amal El-Mohtar, Caitlyn Paxson, and Jessica P. Wick
The Catfish Sisters
“The Catfish Sisters, those blue
barbeled twins, that sleek school of two”
by Lisa M. Bradley
The Rime of the Midwinter Mermaids
“When white-bearded winter wanders through frozen seascapes/ And stirs salt waters with his icy hands of death,/ When his frigid breath blows across the frosted tips of waves,/ And makes icebergs creak and moan with pain and grieving,/ The midwinter mermaids return.”
by Kelly Jarvis
The Pied Piper vs. the Sirens
“he sang to us of freedom
we crooned to him of thrall”
by Gwynne Garfinkle
Reunion With My Mermaid Dolls
“There you are, mother mermaids Coral and Merry / with your long red and brunette hair / and babies Corkie and Marina in your bonnets, / ready to float in bubble baths or wading pools / on your sponge lily pads.”
by Jennifer Fenn
Suburban Mermaids
“Leaping through darkness, we dive ”
by Elya Braden
Field Trip to See the Mermaid
‘We are no myth, we are not
merely fish, not simply women.”
by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan
I’m Not Ready To Leave
‘We are no myth, we are not
merely fish, not simply women.”
by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan
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