MARS IN LIBRA -Poetry by guest author Scott Thomas Outlar

All-consuming black abyss

galactic hunger

comes to eat our heads off

Virgo will bring

the death of my

satisfaction

A true phoenix is never satiated

with just a single transformation

Mars

triggers

conflict

like a cancer

metastasizing

licking the kettle

kissing the pot

dehydrated agenda

of

scorched extinction

only the beastly

can weather

such storms

A diplomatic

lamb of libra

in a den of wolves

or lions

or vultures

or crass concerns

colliding with the spin

brings a swift kick

of scales

off the table

and out of eyes

Reflect the best

or worst

of ourselves

unto and through

each other

with primal

outbursts

coughing up

expansion

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Mars in Libra

by Scott Thomas Outlar

Bio: Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019-2023 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. He is the author of seven books, including Songs of a Dissident (2015), Abstract Visions of Light (2018), Of Sand and Sugar (2019), and Evermore (2021 - written with co-author Mihaela Melnic). Selections of his poetry have been translated and published in 14 languages. He has been a weekly contributor at Dissident Voice for the past eight and a half years.

More about Outlar's work can be found at 17Numa.com