Jonathan Lenore Kastin
Poems
Rust & Moth
Spring 2023
"She wails a white handprint
where the riverweeds dance like claws
no snow but river sand..."
Liminality
Autumn 2017
"He lifts me from the bed of my desire,
rib by rib,
unlaces my mouth..."
The Ice Maiden
Goblin Fruit
Winter 2016
"I will make my heart of ice, she said,
the blooming spike of the North Wind’s bite
..."
Abyss & Apex
July 2015
"She was like cream, they thought,
new snow and the white buds of spring...."
Said the Satyr to the Wood Nymph
Goblin Fruit
Summer 2011
"O my wispy lass,
I will unpluck you..."
Icarus
Goblin Fruit
Spring 2011
"The wingspan of this desire!
The crow fall, the eagle height..."
Mythic Delirium 22
Goblin Delirium Issue 2010
"Four and twenty blackbirds raged
in the stomach of my girl, my counterfeit...."
Mythic Delirium 22
Goblin Delirium Issue 2010
"O my bodiless love,
love of asters and epitaphs..."
