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Bog
The tourists in search of the bogland
are so lost they even mispronounced
north. It is not yet January, and I am
already giving out wrong directions.
Bog is the segment of an unlit terrain
the townfolks say never existed. There,
the ground is soft enough to reduce
anyone to a supplicant's pose,
the battered geometry of surrender.
On the sky, the faces of the dead
smile down. So far, nobody has found
the place. I will have known.
Pilgrims have a way of wordlessly
announcing their secrets. Their eyes
tinkle with guilt when they hand back
their visitor's pass. The sphinx
of a town hall watches over them,
its haunches glossed by spit
from small town bums
and their wide-eyed dates.
More than 600 of Kristine Ong Muslim's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over 250
publications worldwide. Her work has appeared in Aberrant Dreams, Abyss & Apex, Cemetery Moon, Dog Versus Sandwich , Down in the Cellar, GUD Magazine, The Fifth DiFifth Di, Kaleidotrope, Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine,
Niteblade, Oddlands Magazine, OG's Speculative Fiction
Fiction, Spinning Whorl, Tales of the Talisman, The Specusphere, and Trail of Indiscretion. She is a
two-time winner of Sam's Dot Publishing's James Award
for genre poetry.
copyright © 2008, Kristine Ong Muslim
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CONTENTS
FICTION
—Shadows in My Mind
S.C. BRYCE
—All Roads Are One
DEENA FISHER
—Three Views of the Maiden in Peril
CATHERINE LUNDOFF
—She Has a Nice Personality
E.C. MYERS
—Running the Road
NANCY JANE MOORE
—Flowertongue
JESSICA REISMAN
POETRY
—Cold Covers
ADRIENNE J. ODASSO
—Four Last Things
ADRIENNE J. ODASSO
—Bog
KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM
—Stealing Bodies
KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM
NONFICTION
—Archetypical Metafiction: Scrutinizing Fallen Archetypes
TOIYA KRISTEN FINLEY
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