issue 6
// poetry
tails
by Ellie Ellias
our dreams have tails like / humans used to / I hear we left them for the / energy cost / while cities burn they’re putting tails on / robots / this is for dynamic / control / balance / maneuvering / but listen up we / used them to swing through trees / when did we decide this wasn’t what we wanted / we have built all of the wrong gods / whales sing to dissolve boundaries and / time / or because of beauty, remember that / sorry but / AREN’T YOU FED UP? / I swear to god, one more platitude / you’d better evolve, baby / you’ll never get to heaven if you’re living / closed my eyes and there was international law / that’s how I knew it was a dream / I’m not saying you can’t laugh I’m saying you’d better be / screaming / look at the bone we’re left with / how would we ever know that / our tails had dreams like / humans used to like / anybody’s listening anyways
about the author // Ellie Ellias
| Ellie Ellias writes poems and stories from the woods in Quebec. Ellie’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Prism International Short Fiction Competition and longlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award from The New Quarterly. Her poetry has been published in Crowstep Journal, Assignment, and Paper Cranes Literary Magazine. Ellie wholeheartedly supports freedom for Palestine. |
Instagram: @elliejnicks
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