Background art: Ewald Rubsament & Anonymous/Wikimedia & PXhere, CC-PD-Mark & CC0.
Manipulation and design layout: Elizabeth Stark
JBMulligan has had more than 1000 poems and stories in various magazines over the past 40 years, and has had two chapbooks published: The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS, as well as 2 e-books, The City Of Now And Then, and A Book of Psalms. He has appeared in several anthologies, including Inside/Out: A Gathering Of Poets; The Irreal Reader (Cafe Irreal); and multiple volumes of Reflections on a Blue Planet.
Love the way this poem ends–the octopus anchoring the absent stars.
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