Sea Star Wasting Syndrome

Christina Lloyd

Ochre and sunflower stars display
the same lesions and decay.

Leather, bat, and mottled stars
follow suit. Robust bodies arched

against rock now serve up
severance; disembodied arms

rent from constellations.
Their massive die-off an event.

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Christina Lloyd
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco, Christina Lloyd holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in various journals, including Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland Review, Poet Lore, The Interpreter's House, and The North. Her first full length collection, Women Twice Removed, was published in 2024 by Sixteen Rivers Press. She is currently working on a second collection.