Author: admin
A TREE THAT’S LOST ITS GREENERY BY MARK KATRINAK
Trauma defies the strongest adjectives, a verse unworthy of our lexicon. There’s history maneuvering behind the eye, a tree that’s lost it greenery, silhouettes heightening upon the evening grass, birds perching on the edge of...
Read MoreSEASIDE BY MARK KATRINAK
On nights a cloud would cover up the stars an autumn rain would spell out s-o-l-i-t-u-d-e on vacant windows, shadows looking out and taking note of you, their attitudes much sharper than the shifting shapes they took. The heavy...
Read MoreWHAT KEEPS ME HERE BY MARK KATRINAK
What keeps me here could be the morning birds, five pairs of wings ascending toward the sky without an explanation, trees now dumb without their cries or songs, a bird-less yard imprisoned with its August silences. What ties me...
Read MoreBABY, HOLD ON BY JENNIFER GURNEY
baby hold on I didn’t tell you you could go I need you here with me just a little bit longer to look in those eyes and know just what you’re thinkin’ to tell you one more time how much you mean to me baby hold on I didn’t tell...
Read MoreHOLD ON TIGHT BY JENNIFER GURNEY
I hold on, tight leaning in arms wrapped around you your hand on my thigh squeezing my leg in that way you do and I hear you laugh and let go coasting down no handed and as my head screams “Hold on!” my arms lift to float, too...
Read MoreYOU NEVER PROVED ME WRONG BY JENNIFER GURNEY
memories float in unbidden like the one just now of when we’d lie on the couch, together feet to head and head to feet and you’d read to me from White Dragons I loved it most when the words made you cry because they touched your...
Read MoreBE BRAVE ENOUGH BY JENNIFER GURNEY
please be brave enough to step into the tender space that grief creates and walk beside me these fragile days do not ask me what I need I do not know I only know that my heart is shattered and it’s lonely trying to knit it...
Read More
