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megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social · 13d

Suprise! I have another bird poem out in the world 🪶

Summer 2025 (6.1)

Photo credit: Chelista E. Linkous Dear Readers, What a pleasure to read so many poems about nature entwined with the complexity of the human condition! The poems in Summer 2025 (6.1) show a depth o…

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megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social · 21d

Newest and most important poem yet ✨

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Meagan Chandler

Feminine Mystique Our cauldron: a backyard fire pit in Ohiowe circled to tell the ways men turned usinto painted vessels. Even then we knewwe had no kinship with the moon.Is there an ethereal way t…

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megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social · Jul 1

My newest poem: an exploration of Pandora and womanhood ✨

Myth – mojo

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megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social · May 6

Thank you Rockvale 🪱❤️

A Worm Rewrites the Dictionary – by Megan Chandler

Writhe:gunfire, fire,rash pooling over skin.Writhe: feel the dirtin its sodden sensuality,all touch is pleasure. Squirm:blood oozing from a wound,bloody meat, a roosterin the hands of a quiet wife.…

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · Feb 5

“I tried turning back.
But I am scared
circling wings will confuse.

The sky of the fresco:
much brighter,
much bluer than ours.”

From “Necropolis” by Meagan Chandler in ISSUE 24!

Meagan Chandler "Necropolis" — THE SHORE

POETRY

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · Dec 3

"Corn Husk Doll with Face" by Meagan Chandler in @strangehorizons.bsky.social. A beautiful piece, and one that changed my perspective on a treasured possession--a corn husk doll made by my great-grandmother. Lovely! strangehorizons.com/poetry/cornh...

Cornhusk Doll With Face

Glare stiff and long / As a roadside stalk.

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