Three Blood Poems

by the Editorial Staff of Uncanny Valley Magazine

Super Blood Moon photo by Benjamin Stark

Blood
by Alexis Faulkner

Humans are mostly liquid

Had I longer planted myself

In a familiar landscape

My blood might have hardened

And kept me quiet and still

Tomorrow

In the evening

The moon fills with blood

Only then to hide in the Earth’s shadow

In New York

The sky will be cool and clear

And the moon will be bright

Barely bright enough to be another light in the landscape

That can hold our attention just long enough

To read its meaning

And carry on with the counting of our kingdom’s gloried pieces

Days passed that tomorrow

A new sense of blood pain

Feeling woven into the feminine landscape

Feeling forgotten and feeling tiny but not without a home

Warmed by the shared responsibility to keep our blood contained

Lifted by the shared passion to show off our wounds

Remembering the blood moon and the newness shown afterwards

Showered in the light of that big moon

I saw a distant path

And suddenly it appeared underneath me

To bridge the unknown with bold spirit

Would be to map my own blood onto dreams

And to chase life with new, bright bliss

Blood
by Chris Alarie

Our life's blood that sustains us
Will someday portend our doom
In Revelations, John writes,
"And there came a great earthquake
The sun became black as sackcloth
The full moon became like blood"

Individual bodies
We will die, we will bleed out
Lividity will set in
Blood will pool, coagulate
Red and blue, black and purple
Blood tells us that life ends

But blood, like death, connects us
With each other and also
With the creatures great and small
That populate existence
Warm and cold blooded, even
The stupid, stupid horses

12:35pm, August 27th
by Douglas Slayton

there is more of you inside
than there is me.
racing from my chest
to my fingers
but i still can't feel a thing.

i have known more doubt
than anything else.
swallowing smoke
with the sugar metabolizing,
my head is swimming
but i am sinking.

touch my arm the way you did,
again, and feel me run cold.

Alexis Faulkner is Executive Editor-in-Chief of Uncanny Valley Magazine. 
Chris Alarie is Senior Editor-in-Chief of Uncanny Valley Magazine.
Doug Slayton is Professor Editor-in-Chief of Uncanny Valley Magazine.