Ingrid Swanberg is the editor-in-chief of ABRAXAS Magazine, and the editor and publisher of the ghost pony press poetry book series. Her own poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals since 1967. Recent poems have appeared in Osiris and Le Guepard.


the night you were born

neon, phosphor flowered
blue and pink
on the wet streets
it was raining
in the beautiful darkness
for a moment
headlights cut
into the depth of the pines
without disturbing their sleep
but continuing to pour soundlessly
filling with long needles of rain


eight poems: an electronic chapbook appearing in the Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry

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