Featured Poet SS 2019
Mela Blust is Florida raised, and has always had an affinity for dark things. Her work has appeared in Anti Heroin Chic, The Rye Whiskey Review, Nixes Mate Review, Califragile, Little Rose Magazine, Third Wednesday Magazine, The Magnolia Review, Rust+Moth, and is forthcoming in Rhythm and Bones Lit, Abstract Magazine, and Ink in Thirds.
pray
she’s three feet
going on twenty
blink and she’ll be driving
all
blue eyes and blond curls
as she lies still
being fed steroids
intravenously.
I let you carry her down the white
hallway, away
where I could block out her tiny
screams with
a pillow.
How small she was then,
how I wished I’d been big enough
for her.
umbilical
we came of age
in the city by the sea,
the palm frond choir
a lonely threnody.
weathered boards ’round window framed
the faithful face that always
came to torment me.
hushed promises spoken
into thick humidity-
lost forever now that you
have amputated me
To view more of Mela’s work from this issue pick up a copy.