KN Magazine: Poetry
Butterflies
In “Butterflies,” Holly Day twists beauty and decay into a startling meditation on death. Imagining a world where brilliant moths and jewel-toned butterflies emerge from human corpses, this provocative poem challenges our revulsion toward mortality and asks whether transformation would change the way we grieve. Lyrical, unsettling, and philosophical, it confronts the thin boundary between horror and wonder.
BARHOPPING
In “Barhopping,” Al Baron traces a restless night through numbered bars, blurred memories, and unresolved ghosts. What begins as casual drinking becomes an uneasy reckoning with the past—old wounds, shared trauma, and the illusion of escape. Sharp, surreal, and darkly reflective, this poem explores guilt, repetition, and the way entrances and exits can feel equally impossible.
Dust to Dust: Milepost 466
A haunting desert drive becomes a collision of memory, myth, and terror as a lone traveler confronts the revenants of her past and something far darker lurking on Route 264. A poem of place, dread, and the thin veil between the living and what listens in the night.
THE MURDERER’S FATE
As twilight settles over a forest gallows, the hanged body of a murderer becomes both spectacle and symbol. The Murderer’s Fate is a haunting, lyrical meditation on justice, consequence, and the eerie calm after violence.
Ghosts of the Past
A haunting and lyrical meditation on memory, grief, and emotional entrapment, Ghosts of the Past explores the internal battle of burying pain while being buried by it. With stark imagery and symbolic resonance, this poem digs deep into the soil of loss.
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