KN Magazine: Poetry

Holly Day Shane McKnight Holly Day Shane McKnight

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.

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Frank William Finney Shane McKnight Frank William Finney Shane McKnight

Lavations

In Lavations, poet Frank William Finney distills time, memory, and decay into a single image: the act of washing away what cannot be cleansed. A brief yet haunting meditation on age, impermanence, and the quiet persistence of the past.

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Al Baron Shane McKnight Al Baron Shane McKnight

THE PASS

In The Pass, poet Al Baron crafts a stark and atmospheric meditation on motion, mystery, and evasion. With minimal language and cinematic imagery, the poem captures the emotional residue of escape—what we flee, what we ignore, and what waits just around the bend.

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John Grey Shane McKnight John Grey Shane McKnight

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.

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