2022 Content Poetry

The Last Psychic

October 17, 2022

By Ray Corvi

The last psychic I went to
Just shook her head and wept

An imminent mistake
The skeletal utilitarian
Costumed in his carrion
Cannot make the trolley brake

She spoke brokenly

If you are dying in a darkened grove
Where manumitted rivers meet the sea
Don’t scare away the angel by the rose
It is still red, too red to be believed

Ray Corvi writes poetry. HIs work can be found in DASH Literary Journal (May 2022), FRiGG Magazine (forthcoming), OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (Aug/Sept 2021), The Penmen Review (07/2021), The Seattle Star (07/2021), Neologism, Evening Street Press & Review (forthcoming)and Triggerfish Critical Review (July 2022).

Last updated on October 15, 2022

Jay Rafferty

Jay Rafferty is a redhead, an uncle and an eejit. He is the Poetry Editor for Sage Cigarettes Magazine and a guest lecturer on Contemporary and Irish Poetry. His debut poetry chapbook, Holy Things, was published in March by The Broken Spine and his follow-up chapbook, Strange Magic, was released in June 2022 by Alien Buddha Press. You can read his work in several journals including Capsule Stories, Lights on the Horizon and Daily Drunk Magazine. When not losing games of pool he, sometimes, writes stuff.

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