The veil between the worlds is thin, they say, tonight.
And if we walk now to the marketplace
(we fancy it built of fog and fireflies)
the goblins will smile, cry hail and welcome!
They nod their heads, stroke our hair, grasp our fingers,
whisper, yes, the veil grows thin, grows thin...
- from "Transplendent We" by Peg Aloi
The Autumn 2007 Issue of Goblin Fruit is now online, featuring "poems about ghosts and memory, poems about animate place and music. We have poems that are bare-tree spare and poems that are harvest-lush. This season’s issue is our fattest yet, so swallow a spoonful of honey or olive oil and prepare to read aloud for a while."
In addition to the Peg Aloi poem quoted above, there are many other magical offerings (my personal favorites are Jennifer Crow's "Bear Clad" and Corey Mesler's wry fairy tale poem, "The Wolf Hungry for Connection"), and a discussion of dark fantasy in poetry of the Romantic period. The webzine is edited and designed by Amal Ah-motar, Jessica P. Wick, and Oliver Hunter (a talented young trio that I was fortunate enough to spend a little time with this summer), with illustrations by the latter.
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