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The Wistful Moth
A Literary Magazine for the Melancholic and Whimsical
Featured Piece
Poem IV (Sonnet I)
Dylan Stroh
I tinker with the Bayern-grass
And make up with the marveled trees
I’ve never met the underpass
Where you, awaiting me and freeze,
Kiss Me, whom I cannot employ
The money is not knowing me
The bridge rebuilt; was once destroyed
I think, in 1943
Like us, dear Love, there is no plaque
Nor gilded facts for none to read
And anyways, there are no facts
Just matters where we’ve not agreed
So where we aren’t is where we’ll be
We’re in this Love, absurdly free
Featured Piece
A Delicate Death
Isabel Stitchick
Once autumn unfurls we will feast
and tie cinnamon sticks to the doorway
With intention.
I’ll kiss your cheek with mulled wine lips
And ponder the mirror of your campfire corneas.
The crows ravage crystalized corn,
The starlings gossip with mischievous abandon.
Where will they sleep when the forest lulls
In hushed cold suspension?
We will hold hands and skip
To the pumpkin patch
Find the biggest one barely
Suckling still on the stem
And take to it with shovels.
We will carve a home-shaped hole
And sleep together like newborn bunnies–
All warm flesh and vellus hair,
Rhythmic breaths and wet noses.
The moon will rise and we will dream
Of the place where the columbines grew
And the trillium bulbs rest
Beneath the gentle crook of the rusted windmill.
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The Wistful Moth is a literary journal dedicated to showcasing writing that captures the whimsical yet poignant aspects of human life and experience. We accept work from storytellers of a wide range of diversity. We are looking for any submittable form of work that includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction essays, lyrical storytelling, artwork, and photography.
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The Wistful Moth is a literary journal loyal to publishing work that reflects the whimsical yet melancholic side of human life and experience. Through the acceptance and publication of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, lyric writing, and more, this magazine aims to look closer at the intersection of playfulness and seriousness through storytelling. At what moment in your life did you feel like the lines between gloom and imagination blurred? How do these moments stick with you and apply to your other walks of life? We at The Wistful Moth are looking for work that is nostalgic, free, mischievous, introspective, and spirited.