September Snakeskin is now online, containing not only a bumper crop of new poems, but also news of our next special issue.
November Snakeskin will guest-edited by Jessie Randall, and will contain poems devoted to the subject of Cryptozoology (which is, for the uninitiated, the study of beasts that are mythical or legendary.
Here is Jessie’s call for submissions:
CALL FOR CRYPTOZOOLOGY POEMS
The November, 2020 issue of Snakeskin will be a theme issue on cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Jersey Devil, and others. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids for a fairly comprehensive list of cryptids.
Send up to five poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com. Put your poems in the body of the email, please – no attachments. Simultaneous submissions are fine. The deadline is October 1, and you can expect a response by October 15.
Here is G.F. Watts’s 1885 painting of a Minotaur, staring from his prison and considering the inequalities of life and destiny. Jessie is hoping to receive poems as rich and moving as this painting. (And maybe some clever and witty ones as well.)
September 3, 2020 at 12:39 am
_thoughts regarding a painting by g f watts_
to the highest parapet of his labyrinth
the minotaur came each morning to regard the sea
with the imperfect thought of a hybridized awareness
his blunt mind trying to grapple his purpose
waiting with his voice locked in his bovine head
for the ship with black sail to one day bring
an end to his inconsequential confusion
and when i try to contemplate infinity
i am the minotaur a mammal that tries to think