everything has
been hard and
heavy,
as of late;
in my world and the
world at large—

so yesterday i was
drinking in small
wonders

like pretty tulips
dancing out in spring sunlight,

and the little white
butterflies dancing through them;
and soon i found a pair of
jeweled jasper green eyes
glancing back at me—

i said, “hello, kitty”;
but i kept walking as i didn’t
have time to stop on a
magical side quest

at that present moment—

the sky was a pretty shade
of blue, and the clouds were
fluffy balls of cotton candy
teasing my hungry heart.
–
Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has twelve published chapbooks the latest being: Searching Stained Glass Windows For An Answer (Alien Buddha Publishing, December 2022). She has three novellas and four full length poetry collections. Her debut book of photography Songs of the Creek (Alien Buddha Publishing, April 2023) was published in spring of 2023.