MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Peter Jastermsky: Stella by Starlight Orders a Melancholy

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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

Issue 24:	30 Aug. 2024
Prose Poem:	55 words

By Peter Jastermsky

Stella by Starlight Orders a Melancholy

It’s the risk one takes, assembling a life from random objects. No map and be careful where you sit. We had to put the broken bistro glasses somewhere. It must have been quite a night. A handful of shards and a knife that won’t come out of the wall.

Bio: Peter Jastermsky

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