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Fear & Altar

Phoebe Kalid

Phoebe Kalid is a writer and poet from London, England. She holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Fawn Press, Not Deer Magazine, and Catchwater Press, among others.

we knew this wouldn’t end well,
two overzealous death knells

deafened by themselves.
𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒

𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒. 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘
𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚

𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑦𝑠𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑠—
𝑠𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 & 𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒—𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠

𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑒. satan or odysseus?
their footsteps sound the same.

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