2022 / poetry / author

KATHERINE QUEVEDO

LANTERNS
AT DUSK
…

Mauve sky deepens,
sending up the signal for lanterns!

Teardrops with metal
traceries, onion domes
of candy-colored glass,
paper globes like
alien moons frozen
in orbit, lacelike
perforated brass,
polyhedral or
cylindrical silhouettes,
crystal origami
illuminated from inside.

Lights
hanging from strings,
suspended from chains,
on the hook,
coiled in jars,
surrounded by panes,
giving off
every implication
of entrapment

but actually free,
—free—
shining and free!

…

KATHERINE QUEVEDO was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry received an honorable mention in the 2020 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest and has appeared in Honeyguide Literary Magazine, NonBinary Review, Songs of Eretz, The Rail, Coffin Bell, Sidequest, and elsewhere. Find her at

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