Measure Twice by Kat Kline
Measure Twice, collage by Kat Kline #TheMetaworker
The Metaworker Literary Magazine
Where great stories are forged.
“I tell her / it is a raisin, a zabiba—a mark / that forms where the brow is laid / in long conjunction with earth” – excerpt from Sharh on Mutwatta Imam Malik, Book 58, Hadith 1849, poetry by Rozalija Grace #TheMetaworker
“At night, by the fire, I watch the embers dance off your skin. You are aglow with ambers and deep blues.” – excerpt from Swimming in the Ligurian Sea, micro fiction by Rachel Turney #TheMetaworker
“signs and paper flags spill into the gutter / the homeless man’s ticking off / about hunger in the belly of his rich city” – excerpt from Mirrors of Empire, poetry by Thomas Deane Tucker #TheMetaworker
Micro poetry by Callie Thomason French #TheMetaworker
“I want to dive into a pool & feel the cool water on my skin…let it carry the weight of everything I bear.” – excerpt from Grass Hills, poetry by Grace R. Jiao #TheMetaworker
“Morning erupted / we walked to witness / ravens feasting below the swerve” – excerpt from Offerings, poetry by Kris Erskine