Denise Dumar's two poems: "Seeing the Comet" and "My Father Walks to Siberia from Nome, Alaska"
Denise Dumars’s poem, “Snails,” is currently nominated for the Rhysling Award for short science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry. Her most recent collection of poems, Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal, was nominated for the Elgin Award. She has three short stories coming out in anthologies in 2022, including the HWA anthology Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology. A retired literary agent and college English professor, she now writes full-time and helms Rev. Dee’s Apothecary: A New Orleans-Style Botanica, at www.DyanaAset.com. Seeing the Comet All of a kind, we joined the others, crossing the bridge marked CLOSED. Black shorts, dark hoodies: we were of the faith. One supplicant brought a dog for sho...