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"Bad Omens by Jessica Drake-Thomas begets a canticle of death and resurrection, a spell for love and revenge, a bellow to claw your way out of the dark and back into this world with fire in your heart. Gothic and mystical,
Jessica Drake-Thomas
Jessica Drake-Thomas is a gothic horror poet and novelist. She's the author of two collections of poetry, Burials and Bad Omens. She's a poetry editor at Coffin Bell Journal. When not writing or reading, Jessica is listening to true crime podcasts, baking scones, walking her labrador, and committing witchcraft and mayhem under the full moon.
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Bad Omens - Jessica Drake-Thomas
BAD OMENS
JESSICA DRAKE-THOMAS
Bad Omens
Jessica Drake-Thomas
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Chicago, Illinois
QUERENCIA PRESS
© Copyright 2022
Jessica Drake-Thomas
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ISBN 978 1 959118 09 1
www.querenciapress.com
First Published in 2022
Querencia Press, LLC
Chicago IL
Printed & Bound in the United States of America
This anger endangers one’s hold over convention. It places one beyond the pale. It announces one’s emerging self… (This anger) expresses love and an unwillingness to accept anything but love in return.
–María Lugones
For my mother, who has always encouraged both the writer and the reader in me.
CONTENTS
SPEAK TO ME
WHEN MY FEET TOUCHED DARK SOIL,
HELHEST (Hel’s Horse)
UNTITLED
THE LOVED ONES
DESCENT
BAD BROOD
READING IN THE BATH
BOOK OF THE DEAD
RUSSIAN DOLL
VENA AMORIS
COLD MOON RITUAL
DARK ALCHEMY
THE DEVIL//THE LOVERS
BLOOD OATH
FENRIR
THE WOLVES
ANATOMICAL VENUS
THE ASH TREE
OBSESSIONS WITH TRAGEDIES
TWO OF SWORDS
PUT THE BONES BACK
SEA-WITCH
BELLADONNA
OCCLUSION
THE EMPRESS REVERSED
THREE OF SWORDS
OPHIOPHAGY
LA FÉE VERTE
UNKNOWN COUNTRY
THE BONE THIEF
1466 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
DARK CANTICLE
DEATH
OUROBOUROS
QUEEN OF THE CROSSROADS
NOTES ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATONS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SPEAK