Baubles From Bones: Issue 2
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Demeter's Lamentation

Elena S. Kotsile

Under acidic sky I was

stood upon sterile rock

staring single strands

swimming unsheathed

in elemental oceans.

Now, only death.

Death of the deer.

Death of the tree.

Death of the wheat.

My womb weeps beneath

Hera’s milk, the starry

swathe that in times past

brightened your path.

Now only darkness.

Disease, famine, and thirst

flood your world—you, who

so cruelly dismissed my

fruit and dissipated my own.

My breasts bleed your bound extinction.

My tears helpless against your fires.

Baubles From Bones: Issue 2
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Elena S. Kotsile

Elena S. Kotsile (pen name) is a science editor and a neurodivergent writer based in Berlin, Germany. Her creative words have appeared in various venues, such as The Future Fire, Stadtsprachen Magazin, Acropolis Journal, Grim & Gilded, Air & Nothingness Press, and Greek journals and anthologies. Besides scientific articles, she writes speculative poetry and fiction in English and Greek. Nominated for the Rhysling Award and Best of Net. Twitter: Elena Kotsile @ElenaKotsile; Instagram: @elena_kotsile.