wishing

by Allister Nelson

​lately these days,
i look like the
madonna
 
spindrils gold,
blue cloth, white
glove.
 
seed of apple
inside me, Eve’s
spark
 
and a hope in my
breast, that grows
in the dark.

by van Tine

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Allister Nelson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated, queer, neurodivergent author whose work has appeared in The British Fantasy Society, Apex Magazine, Eternal Haunted Summer, Luna Station Quarterly, Prismatica, and many other venues.