April Frances
april-frances.bsky.social
April Frances
@april-frances.bsky.social
I wrote poetry about dead animals mostly

* she/he

* https://medium.com/@aprilfrances

* https://substack.com/@aprilhyphenfrances
Two new pieces up this weekend on Substack ONLY this time. Medium is lacking the ability to freely format poetry!

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Yes We All Know They Are Shadow Puppets
So here are flowers Beholden to supernatural law Which petrify beneath a cloudy warm day, stifled As paintings mimic them And never clasped in glades.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
New poem on Medium and Substack about Cain and Abel and repentence.

medium.com/@aprilfrance...
aprilhyphenfrances.substack.com/p/cain-provo...
Cain Provokes
Before He spoke to me  I spoke to you and no one else Abel, this could have been our precedent —  before us, with our parents no spoken…
medium.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New poem posted on Medium and Substack which is about death and also animals but perhaps not dead animals specifically!

medium.com/@aprilfrance...

#poetry #horrorpoetry
Teeth
The Belmonts died with Dracula,  which is to say, they never died; like the apothecary,  torch-glows and carriages through mud for which…
medium.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New poem posted on Medium dot com (yup it's about dead animals)

medium.com/@aprilfrance...
Vultures
There are no clouds except the birds in disarray,  which could be sparrows.  You can see the bellies in eclipse and small wingspans…
medium.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM