This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN#/ISBN# issue/book “the End of the World” cc&d, v279 (the January 2018 issue) Order this as a 6"x9" paperback book: |
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otherworldly
Linda M. Crate
she was the faerie, and i the mad poet;
she ensnared my heart from the very first moment;
i knew that she could be dangerous and cruel as she was beautiful and kind—
yet we formed a kinship she and i despite all the odds;
and she made me remember the dreaming when i thought it was gone from me;
she taught me that scars were beautiful that all these wounds in me proved i lived fearlessly—
now she is but another of these wounds, but i realize that she was right;
we were only ever friends but i fell in love with the faerie of the roses without realizing it until i had
seems fitting to me that the only woman i should have ever loved was from another world.