Falling Star Magazine

Emily,

We're pleased to inform you that your poem 'Scranton Signs' has been selected for publication in the Spring issue of Falling Star Magazine. This issue, to be printed in mid-April, will appear at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA, April 28th & 29th. Attendance at last years festival exceeded 130,000 people. At this time: please reply to this e-mail confirming that the work cut/pasted below is indeed your own original creation. Please also include an address where you would like your contributors copies sent. Thank you for sending your work our way.

- Matt McGee, editor Falling Star Magazine

SCRANTON SIGNS

Christmas bulbs illuminated the ghosts that dwelled beyond the cracked eyes of the abandoned school

Did anyone else see the absurdity in that sign Coming Soon.... that had perched there almost a decade?

Once upon a time it told a tale of what the once upon a time grandeur of that place would soon hold

but that other sign had gone missing stolen or blown away or eaten by the mines

perhaps its promise lit by cheap white lights to a withering town was this very future

ghosts of children staring out dirty windows whispering coming soon shadows, death and decay.

http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/