Poetry by Savannah Slone

An Exhalation of Dead Things

I could write a how to guide on breaking
I have a celestial allegiance to all of my seared transgressions
and breaches, violations, infringements
                                                                             and                                     breakings

of the molten women I’ve been
the pronouns I’ve lost and found
                                                                             the masks I’ve tried on
all extraterrestrial identities broken,
off to the landfill of my subconscious, no time for braking,

I hem a moonscape for all of my selves that I’ll be
and have been
and am
and will dream about within my
               interstellar
                                breakdowns of               Self.




Lunar

I long for a cosmological relocation a lavender planet a marmalade dream a blackberry
compote where humans plant ferns and poppies and poison ivy where men hear “no”
where snakes pulse around your wrists crystal constellations rose quartz galaxies bodies
of water—bodies of life.

A planet whose moons are prayed to by the visionaries and the creators and the ones who
question where microscopic languages heal scars, solstice deposits, hidden in drawers,
​never go deprived.

We: undiscovered.

Where the moons rise and we rise, too.

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Bio: Savannah Slone is a queer writer who earned her B.A. in English: Professional and Creative Writing from Central Washington University and is completing her M.F.A. in Writing at Lindenwood University. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in or will soon appear in Manastash Literary Arts Magazine, Creative Colloquy, Heavy Feather Review, Boston Accent Lit, PaperFox Lit Mag, The Stray Branch, The Airgonaut, Ghost City Press, Sinister Wisdom, decomP magazinE, Maudlin House, FIVE:2:ONE, Foliate Oak, Pidgeonholes, and Luna Luna Magazine. Her debut chapbook, Hearing the Underwater, is forthcoming publication at Finishing Line Press. Savannah lives in Skykomish, WA, where she works a handful of part-time jobs and cares for her toddler with autism. She enjoys reading, writing, knitting, hiking, and talking all things intersectional feminism.