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Deviation

By Isaac Payne

Train of darkened bones
passes bear’s winter hole.
Sleepless forest breathes smoke.

 

Isaac Payne is an English and writing graduate. He is also a graduate of the Alpha Young Writer’s Workshop, and his short story “The Pursuit of Luck” received an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Writers of the Future contest. His short fiction has appeared in The Corvid Review, and he was a panelist discussing Eastern and Western speculative fiction at the 2018 Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference. Deviation

Filed Under: 2021 Issue, Poetry

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