luna’s goat
by Özge Lena
They waited until the sun set.
There weren’t any tears at all.
The goat was famous for being ugly.
The goat belonged to a girl named Luna.
The girl was famous for owning that thing.
The girl knew the sacred art of self adornment.
She wore a silver silk dress sewn with animal teeth,
a necklace of wishbones, a hat woven with quills.
She wore herself as an ordinary error proudly.
Her feet were bare all the time.
Her beast loved to lick them.
And she loved her beast.
The girl and the goat were wandering all around the sun
stricken country as a captivating anomaly. Luna’s goat
was the dark whisper blowing even before they came
to a city. Which made people empty the shelters
to witness their cataclysmic beauty.
A chrome moon was hanging in the carbon sky.
The boys waited for that unacceptable dissimilarity.
The boys planted plastic pieces dipped in poison,
sharp and invisible like an upcoming calamity.
They waited until the sun rose.
There weren’t any tears at all.
Death came twice softly.
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BIO: Özge Lena is a worldwide published poet who appears in The London Magazine, Modron Magazine, The International Times, and elsewhere in various countries, including the UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Spain, Iceland, Serbia, France, etc. Özge's poetry was nominated both for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize in 2021, then for The Plough Poetry Prize in 2023 and for the Black Cat Poetry Press Nature Prize in 2024. Her ecopoem "Undertaker" is forthcoming in the Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War Anthology of Scarlet Tanager Books in the USA. Also, her poem “Here is a New Heart For You” was showcased in the Barnes & Noble bookstore for National Poetry Month.