Bob Lucky is the author of Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), and the e-chapbook What I Say to You (proletaria.org, 2020). He lives in Portugal.

Bob Lucky

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Sometimes magic fails
the spell unravels
incantations
crumble on the lips
like stale prayers
you splutter
in the spotlight
fingers grope
for a soft miracle
in a puff of smoke
you are the rabbit
you've pulled from your hat