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Buckley, Sionnain
By Sionnain Buckley

The Time-Space Synesthete Draws You a Picture of What You Can’t See

Poetry

In a world where writers operate within the confines of page and word limits, Sionnain Buckley is a visionary without regard for parameters. In her poem, “The Time-Space Synesthete Draws You a Picture of What You Can’t See” Buckley renders a world where time has a shape, where every word has weight, and where the…

The header image was created by Natasha Loewy and Owen Takabayashi, the featured artists for the On Permanence anthology.

Buckley, Sionnain
Sionnain Buckley

Sionnain Buckley is a writer and visual artist based in Columbus, OH. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Wigleaf, Strange Horizons, Foglifter, Autostraddle, The Seventh Wave, and others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Ohio State, and has received fellowship support from The Seventh Wave, the Adirondack Center for Writing, and the KHN Center for the Arts.

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