Juliet is an adult education tutor, wildlife surveyor and conservation volunteer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published. She has just set up on Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com/ and can be found on Twitter and Bluesky as @craftygreenpoet.

Juliet Wilson

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The Alchemy of Night

Those specks we call stars
are the fire embers
of spirits leaving bodies.

The bridges of the city shake
under quaking neon clouds.

Everything is about to collapse.

Even the stars.