Kongamato has breath like tendrils
of leathery fog. it blisters
skin. clogs pores thick with terror.
no one dares meet its eyes.
instead, they summon
prayers. crouch beneath
a veil of
shadowed
screams.
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Black Beak (a Nonet)
B. Sharise Moore
B. Sharise Moore is a writer/educator, the host of Moore Books with B. Sharise on YouTube, and the Poetry Editor at Fiyah Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. A New Jersey native and graduate of Rutgers University, Moore’s poems and short stories have appeared in several anthologies and journals including For Harriet, The City: A Cyberfunk Anthology, and Chosen Realities: Summer 2020. Her YA steampunk/magical realism novel, Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars, is set for an early 2021 release. For more about B. Sharise Moore, visit https://bsharisemoore.com/
