NEW! Excited and delighted to have another new poem appearing in MasticadoresUSA - “Old Photo Booth Inside a Box Inside a Basement”!

"This sort of semi-insomnia
inside which you're half

asleep, but not entirely
and it's hard to differentiate

between dreams and reality. Who are you?
You don't know what to believe.

Is anything real?"

I am delighted to have a new poem, “Old Photo Booth Inside a Box Inside a Basement”, newly appearing in MasticadoresUSA today. You can read more of my poem HERE - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/old-photo-booth-inside-a-box-inside-a-basement-by-juliet-cook/

I hope your December has glimmers of real if you want it to, in whatever way you want it to. 

NEW! Excited and delighted that FIVE NEW POEMS of mine are now available in Gargoyle Online #12!

"......Cheap amusement

park rides fall apart, toss those who were on top
down and then underneath the ground.
A neigh becomes a scream then nothing."

in my poem "Death is an Amusement Park Ride", one of five of my poems newly appearing in the new Gargoyle Online #12

read more of my poems HERE - https://gargoylemagazine.com/juliet-cook/

Partake of more of the new issue HERE - https://gargoylemagazine.com/2025/12/online-12/

NEW! My poem "Death is Lurking" is making an appearance in Buffalo 8, volume 5! Happy December!

"My legs have lost their elasticity.
My face has lost its glow.
My body has lost its flow.
Get out your blow torch."

the beginning of my poem, "Death is Lurking", newly appearing in volume 5 of Buffalo 8

Read more of my poem here - https://buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/801704783140585472/death-is-lurking

Check out the whole volume 5 here - https://buffalojournal.tumblr.com/

Wishing you a creatively wonderful December!