FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SKY KEY Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words sky and/or key, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on March 14th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Sky Key will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Chad Parenteau

E-lone


One hand droning

through Diablo 4,

other puts it on.


A winter glove 

spray painted 

safety orange.


Fattened fist erupts.

“Stop making me 

your puppet!” 


He pushes puffed

fingers against 

gaudy palm,


whispers Stop

hitting yourself

over and over.


The mitt erupts.

“Stop! Making!

Me! Your! Puppet!”


Palm drawn

to mouth, he

lifts his voice.


You didn’t come

here to fight

did you? 


Druid paused,

zipper undone,

strained silence


as he wonders 

when an orange 

stops being one


and starts being

something else,

something that


rhymes with 

Musk? Dusk…

Husk…Tusk…?


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