By Terra Scott
Life is a winter in the wilderness
With no matches or lighters.
Love, is the fire in your home.
Without delicate attention to the fire,
The Home grows cold and dark.
If you fall asleep shivering,
You may never return to enjoy the summer.
If danger sets you into motion,
You patiently rub two sticks together
Until the sun hears your call and responds,
With a gentle kiss from her deadly flame.
By Terra Scott
You are Beautiful.
Know it as you know the Sunshine
Is hugging you on a blossoming Afternoon.
Let your Smile turn you around in a circle
And turn You around in a Circle.
By Taylor Ambrosi
Clear my head
my heart
These substances
vacuuming every nerve
consuming all sanity
But you
broadcasting a peculiar palpitation
And I
acquiesce the ambiance
of this archaic atmosphere
By Emily Harder
What if the differences didn’t matter?
What if we just were
What if there was love and happiness,
Laughter and helping hands
Would that really be so bad?
Would the world turn against us?
Or has that already begun?
What if the differences didn’t matter?
i.
he can see their shapes, their bodies lurking in the water
sediments of dark, past days: heavy with sediment
moving in slow strides, they churn the water like butter
matter settles at the bottom of the sea
he puts himself with them,
these creatures from the underwater
waters that have made him / waters that now part him, pulling him down towards a center,
its murky waters and deposits: a place where human life has never been
down, down towards its pit,
engulfed by its green blue treasures,
he wrestles with the water, these creatures from the underwater,
darkness:
he puts himself with them
ii.
light!
water djinn:
he runs along the shoreline,
fingers wrapped around a ribbon, parted lips, cheeks flushed
he has seen them! water djinn:
he has seen the swimming waters!
away from the glaring sun, parted lips, cheeks flushed
iii.
fragmentation, heavy sediment:
above and under water
down down its green blue treasures, away from the glaring sun
away, away from the glaring sun/ murky waters, matter settles;
he has seen the swimming waters!
darkness, light, fragmentation
he has seen the swimming waters!
darkness, light, fragmentation,
he has seen the swimming waters,
he puts himself with them
these creatures from the underwater
matter settles at the bottom of the sea
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