Shanti Weiland

The Moon is Your Mother

Listen to my latest poem, “The Moon is Your Mother.”Read more The Moon is Your Mother

The Other Failure

Listen to my latest poem, “The Other Failure.”Read more The Other Failure

Final Girls

Do you like horror? I do! Click here to read my poem, “Final Girls,” about my longstanding love of the genre (published by the wonderful Hobo Camp Review).

Defect

You were smart,
to slip out first.
I remember when boys
laughed at your red
face, the trouble
your kidney’s failure
caused when you didn’t make it
to Typing class, and I had no idea
that you died.
You were 12, and I lost it
in History.

Today, a blogger
called “homos”
victims of a birth…Read more Defect

How It Happened

It happened in the woods,
of course, where all that growls
maintains a weird light.

Dreams are petal cut-outs against
wood that happen
to ignite even the barest
fraction of memory. 

The slightest growl
in the dark you remember
fingering your afghan
that night, as a branch
tapped the glass.

Only it wasn’t the woods…Read more How It Happened