POETRY BY MORGAN VENTURA

TRIGGER WARNING: WAR / THE PRODUCT AND AFTERMATH OF

Siege of Dubrovnik

Citrine sun knifes the sky,
a solar pillage.

Landmines rain down below and 
steal frontiers of nations.

My great-aunt’s yard yields atomic roses and delicate oak
and we sip wine and squint at soldiering clouds.

No animals arrive as explosions 
caress and claim limbs of wanderers. 
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War again in Croatia,
the Adriatic swells with souls.

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Morgan L. Ventura is a Sicilian-Irish American writer and ex-archaeologist from the Midwest. Ventura's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bending Genres, Strange Horizons, Augur Magazine, and Ghost City Review, among others. They currently serve as an editor for South Broadway Press. Find Ventura on Twitter: @hmorganvl or Instagram: @_morganvl