In March we asked for entries to a charity anthology where the theme was STOLEN. Kneel Downe's Stolen Indie Anthology is published on 20th May but we wanted to share some of the entries here on the website too, whether or not they made it into the new book. Here's Pandora by AJ Huffman...
She was to be his punishment. A fire
given for a fire stolen from a mountain
too sacred to truly breed fear.
But once inside, Heaven's beauty
found Hell in a jar the size of her fist,
and with a smile that would melt the world
she turned to face the wind, letting
the glass turn to fit her fingers,
this plague designed to maintain found reason
to release - with a kiss - every other plague
designed to destroy man.
A.J. Huffman has published twelve full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2500 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com.
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