Georgia Riordan

Georgia Riordan (she/they) is a queer, disabled MFA student at Rosemont College with a Writing BA from Ithaca College. They write primarily within the forms of poetry, flash, and lyric essays and within the genres and cross-genres of horror, magical realism, and creative nonfiction. You can find all their previous publications on their website: georgiariordan.com.

modern angels are nihilists

there is a seraph who skulks around the liquor store

in the hours between twilight and dawn. despite her

many crooked mouths she doesn’t talk much—

she’s always gripping a vape in one hand

and a bottle of patrón in another. on the day

the rain drove the floundering worms to the sidewalk,

she told me, with my palms full of wrigglers,

that there was nothing divine left

in me. i asked her how come

and she coughed out an answer:

gods do not waste time moving us out of harm’s way.