An Evening with the Nature Musuem Pier
COLETTE POSTAER
A needless pier
houses singing cranes on the night shift.
A siren pleads with me to stay.
A silver sky, painted with light,
pollutes the ever-wilting empyrean.
I miss Mother’s maculate stain.
In distilled silence,
I do my best to leave no trace—
just me,
the breeze,
and the moon.
Colette Postaer—named after the late, great French writer of the 1920s—was destined to put feeling to paper. Her journals are filled with boundless poetry and raw, stream-of-consciousness short stories. Writing is the medium that continues to resonate with her; it feels the most poignant, the most true. Colette is the founder and creative director of Knotted Lace, a Chicago-based art magazine. Deeply community-driven, she is committed to building spaces for creative expression. She writes to connect—and shares her stanzas with anyone willing to listen.
The debut issue of Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. 6×9 paperback, 134 pages.
Poetry by: David Agyei-Yeboah, Maude B., Madeline Blair, Ace Boggess, Ashlee Craft, Zach Crosswait, Zoë Davis, Gavin DuBois, Mal Grace, Erica Hasselbach, Asmi Kartikeya, Daithí Kearney, Maëlle Keita, Ayesha Khan, Emma Lee, Juan Madrigal, Faisal Mohyuddin, Phoebe Nerem, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vaghawan Ojha, Samuel Plauché, Colette Postaer, David Raygoza, Tori Rego, Maddy Rowe, Patricia Russo, Satori, Ayden Scott, Brandon Shane, Sameen Shakya, Anca Varvara-Piccozzi, Ethan Viets-VanLear, Rebecca Watson, Jenny Whidden, gray lindsey, Ammara Younas, Zaid Zaheer
Prose by: B.E. Austin, Johnzee Baptiste, Rohit Karir, Sara Muttar, Sarah R. New, Anna Nguyen, Farhan Nurdiansyah, Eli Sugerman, Dylan Terry
Art by: Fatima B., Bea Bouman, Nathan Doty, Bushra Khan, mahnoor, Zafar Malik, Stefanie Reinhart
Please note that copies are printed-to-order and can take up to one month to be delivered.