Abracadabra (from the Aramaic languages, meaning I will create as I speak)
By: Amber McBride
I.
Selma has a locus cocktail, ciphers blood into her fish tank, even adopts frogs.
She turns off all her lights to study bleakness. She thinks that marking doors,
the intention of sacrifice will be enough.
(Abracadabra was originally published in Pretty Owl Poetry in April 2018. Check out the literary magazine and read the rest of the poem at Pretty Owl Poetry)