Friday, June 27, 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025: Ann Huang's "Aftermath"

 Aftermath

                after Schubert’s Minuet in A Minor

 

Peace has maintained

You— someone so special
other-worldly, complacently
living out of a hope

 

You’ve endured many ordeals
for wearing off your devils
by the sitting bone
at dawn
de-franchising the blood cells
from slapping pains.

 

You’ve found joy
releasing want on earth
from your much-earned matriarch
fracturing bones
of eternal hooks

After a sage opens her window
a butterfly leaves her cocoon
outside limbo
She has obtained
the light of the high-light


© 2025 Ann Huang




Ann Huang is a poet, filmmaker, non-profit administrator, full-time frenchie parent, and part-time Traveling Show Manager for The Marin Poetry Center. Ann is making her seventh experimental film BRAZEN SAILS from Ann Huang Presents. She loves to stroll on the beach with her frenchie and practice reformation Pilates with her peers. Find out more about her work at AnnHuangPoetry.com and SaffronSplash.com.

Friday, June 13, 2025

Friday, June 13, 2025: Diana Rosen's "How to Write a Love Letter"

 



how to write a love letter

 

it should     singe     leave an edge

blackened  by fire   not destroyed

not all    ash    its  beautiful, inked 

words    proof of your passion

that fire   in your body    that slow 

fire    of desire    deep wanting

quenched only    by warm  kisses

touch skin on skin  relished or 

savored      consumed     when  if

you     ever      can meet       again


© 2025 Diana Rosen


Diana Rosen is a poet and flash writer whose hybrid book of poetry and flash, High Stakes & Expectations, was conceived, written, and published during the lockdown, no doubt to avoid laundry. She lives in Los Angeles where her "backyard" is the largest urban green space in the U.S., Griffith Park. She writes commercially about tea. Please visit her portfolio site, authory.com/dianarosen