Sunfall, by Alexander Etheridge

Photo by Adam Wilson on Unsplash

It was another time 
long ago now
A planetwide catastrophe
all happening at once in
a shadowy room
with its tiny window opened to
great blossoming fires
leaving behind damnation’s landscape
stranger than the mind of
Hieronymus Bosch
like a fever dream of the 
empty room
or the angels’ own plan
come to pass

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Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998.  His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others.  He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022.