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Cover of BFB5, art by Lucas Kurz. Wrapped in a velvet cape, a young king gazes up in surprise while he plays with a trio of kittens.
Baubles From Bones: Issue 5
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Consolation

Kelsey Dean
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The sky is a hundred thousand freckles.

A neck is an unnecessary root: couldn’t a head


untethered float upward to whisper

in the ear of that doting moon?


Her silver beams keep coming back around.

O, that knowing gleam. O, these venomous


threats quieted by the silent drip of brightness.

Who needs to face a human face when the night is


an open palm offering. When its vastness

could swallow the sea. Wouldn’t it be a solace


to see that brined violence of traitors undone?

Every constellation is a story, a web,


a wiggling chorus of lines conjoined.

How simple it seems to rewrite the burden,


to make this halo of hissing

points of starlight


& me a glimmering whole.

Cover of BFB5, art by Lucas Kurz. Wrapped in a velvet cape, a young king gazes up in surprise while he plays with a trio of kittens.
Baubles From Bones: Issue 5
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Kelsey Dean

Kelsey Dean lives lakeside in Wisconsin. She crafts and writes with fairytales and folklore always in mind, and her work can be found in Lilac City Fairy Tales, gigantic sequins, Abyss & Apex, and beyond.

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