Baubles From Bones: Issue 4
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the trick of the necromancer's womb

Devin Miller

what bones have I given birth to,

what necromantic child given life,

what slid from my body into lake-water

and was drowned by wonder?

the trick of the necromancer's womb

is to grow things both living and dead,

children and not-children.

reach into the death-cold lake

and grip the hand that reaches back.

the water is not clear enough to know

if the hand will be skeletal or flesh:

good luck.

love it regardless.

lift the creature newly birthed

into the frosted air, and listen

for its screams.

Baubles From Bones: Issue 4
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Devin Miller

Devin Miller is a queer, genderqueer cyborg and lifelong denizen of Seattle, with a love of muddy beaches to show for it. Their short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, and Strange Horizons; their poetry received an honorable mention in the 2022 Rhysling Awards and once appeared on a King County Metro bus terminal. You can find Devin under a tree, probably, or at devzmiller.com

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