the hot coals
without a moon or star to sing
parade of death and bones
bleed for my thorns
Linda M. Crate’s poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has five published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press — June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon — January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter Press, September 2017), and splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018), and one micro-chapbook Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018). She is also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).
Twitter:@thysilverdoe; Instagram:@authorlindamcrate; Facebook: Linda-M-Crate-129813357119547
