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Headlight Anthology

@headlightant.bsky.social

lit journal featuring poetry & prose ⦁ published (almost) annually since 1998 ⦁ run by Concordia grad students ⦁ headlightanthology.ca/

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HAheadlightant.bsky.socialSep 11, 2023 1:07am

Things have been busy at Headlight—so busy we haven't shared photos from our relaunch at the 4TH SPACE! Here's special guest @manahil.bsky.social closing our event & the opening of Manahil's piece, "Turning Twenty-Four on the Rise of the Sturgeon Moon." Read/listen to the full piece on out site 🚘

Photo of the Headlight relaunch at Concordia's 4th space: six rows of audience members with their backs to the camera and, at the background, Manahil Bandukwala performing at the mic, facing the audience.

Turning Twenty-Four on the Rise of the Sturgeon Moon

by Manahil Bandukwala

A sturgeon, smiling, or swimming. River level rises in late summer. Waist-high. Once it might have engulfed me. Salt. I forgot to look over my shoulder two weeks ago and luck now eludes me.

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Was I dreaming or is every sky pinker than the last. Snow catches fire five-hundred kilometres north-west of here. Here the sturgeon smiles, and swims. A full moon

morphed, elongated, swishing water and mud at the lake end.

Think hard about wishes
before blowing out
the candles,

careful not to waste any.

Headlight Anthology

@headlightant.bsky.social

lit journal featuring poetry & prose ⦁ published (almost) annually since 1998 ⦁ run by Concordia grad students ⦁ headlightanthology.ca/

155 followers122 following28 posts