*blush*
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.
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