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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Meadowsweet by Hannah Durham (Lucent Dreaming Issue 9)

“Now, he notices only my absence, the things I have not done: a thin layer of dust in the hallway, an unprepared meal in the pantry. I’ve started abandoning tasks just to see if he notices, the calculated neglect like a beam from a distant lighthouse.”

seven disney princesses fall headlong into a new tale by Timi Sanni (Lucent Dreaming Issue 9)

here, a big-footed cinderella wears leathersandals in place of glass slippers, sword-in-hand, she walks into the arena to fighta tournament —this ball begets only thedance