KN Magazine: Poetry

M. Anne Avera Shane McKnight M. Anne Avera Shane McKnight

Old Faithful

A tender meditation on devotion, aging, and the quiet vigil of love, Old Faithful captures the midnight hours shared between a person and a beloved dog nearing the end of life. Through intimate imagery and restrained grief, the poem honors loyalty, caretaking, and the ache of staying awake with someone you cannot bear to leave alone.

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Nathan Valentine Shane McKnight Nathan Valentine Shane McKnight

Light and Shadow

A lyrical poem exploring the contrast and connection between two wounded souls, whose wings—light and shadow—mirror their shared histories of hurt, healing, and longing. A meditation on love, grief, and the way two people can become each other’s dawn and dusk.

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Bhuwan Thapaliya Shane McKnight Bhuwan Thapaliya Shane McKnight

Her songs

In Her Songs, Nepalese poet Bhuwan Thapaliya offers a luminous tribute to the enduring power of ancestral music and its ability to echo across mountains, time, and silence. As a woman sings beneath the moonlit sky, the universe leans in—revealing how songs of love and peace may be the world’s most vital inheritance.

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