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vespers, Katy Naylor
sometimes I walk through the forest
on the very edge of dusk
the air sharpening
the branches’ shadows lengthening
and I could sing
for the pleasure of being here
and I stare
into the mouth of the onrushing dark
unhinging
but it is not here yet
it is not here yet
Katy Naylor lives by the sea, on the south coast of England. She writes poetry and text adventure games in the time that falls between the cracks. She secretly wants to be a Viking. She has work published or forthcoming in: The Bear Creek Gazette, Outcast Press, and Resurrection Mag.