Shapes of Disaster

moon

by Ivan Peledov

People are dangerous in
the kingdom of laughter like doorbells that
don’t ring. Their god is viciously hiding.
A pale moon shouts at blackbirds, at skunks,
books, stones, brooks. Dogs grow silence out of
human fibs.


Ivan Peledov lives in Colorado. He loves to travel and to forget the places he has visited. He has been published in Eunoia Review, Lost and Found Times, Red Fez, Illuminations, and other magazines. @ivan.peledov on facebook.