This one kind of jellyfish doesn’t die by Lisa Byus (Lucent Dreaming Issue 8)

A polyp pulses in the primordial deep
Undulating into an ephyra in another epoch
Luminous beneath fathoms and fathoms and fathoms and more
Suspended in centuries of silent depths, then stirring
An eternal Cambrian climbing to the rippling sunlight
And the break of age.

Lisa enjoys writing poems, ancient history, and one Irishman. Also brownies.

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This is where we meet by Sorcha Sheehy Williams (Lucent Dreaming Issue 8)

I was prepared to feel alone, expected the government-mandated 2-metre gap to yawn between us, cold and hostile. I expected these new spaces to be

Whirlpools by M.J. Bourne (Lucent Dreaming Issue 8)

I’m not under an illusion,you weren’t sent from up above.But what makes my heart beat faster?Well, it simply isn’t love. I make my own decisions

Dulce et Decorum Est -19 by Paul Dunne (Lucent Dreaming Issue 8)

Bent double, like the homeless under sacks,knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed Johnson’s fudge.Then on the failing beeb we turned our backs,and, allowing for the