Fog Magic, by Cindy Faughnan

In the early morning rain, birds materialise from a blanket of fog like a magician’s trick. Grey shapes fly closer, red, yellow, and blue shimmer, sparkle, burst into the sunlight like tiny fireworks, become bright cardinals, tiny goldfinches, bold blue jays, before...

Giant Wall, by Cindy Faughnan

  * Cindy Faughnan writes poems for children and adults when she’s not working on her middle-grade/YA novels. Her poems have appeared in Roar Kids Magazine, Dirigible Balloon, High Five, and Visual Verse. She completed an MFA in Writing for Children and Young...

Humpback, by Leigh Manley

Here you come, Major Big Time, smooth-sailing ocean’s ceiling in your lumpy, bumpy skin, swaying hello to watchers: a living, breathing submarine tail-waving so-long like a colossal mermaid on vacation. You re-emerge in thundercrush rush, splashing and spraying your...