Two Poems By Your Editor, A.J. Huffman

Twinkle Twinkle

Little starfish

flicker beneath layers of darkening

water.  Clouds of sand shift over

their shapes, a reflection

of night’s sky.  I touch this almost

reality, my fingers shock

its expanse.  For a moment

it prickles, before settling

back into its eerie looking-glass

impersonation of what lies

beyond.

Sand Castle

Broken shell, tossed.  Turned

sideways.  Sole spire shining

in the sun.  Abandoned

beach spanning in every direction.

An arid moat.  Waiting, flagless,

for a wandering king.

A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the winner of the 2012 Promise of Light Haiku Contest.  Her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com