It is always at the overlook, where my destiny meets chasm, to fly over edge free as the eagle I have memorized for an hour or walk back to my rusting car feeling the tug of future centuries, as if there are companions in the hush of seasons. Spring filled with magnolias, summer, lichen and […]
Kim Malinowski
Kim Malinowski (she/they) is a lover of words. She is the author of Home, Phantom Reflection, Buffy’s House of Mirrors, Clutching Narcissus, Reverberations, and Death: A Love Story. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.
Oh, Vincent,
for “The Starry Night” Vincent Van Gogh Even at midnight, brightness. Shadows deepen over village, steeples creep skyward. Clouds swirl impasto, painter’s knife sliding, cutting broken love. Glowing pigment straight from the tube, no mixing, only precise movements imagining shattered pieces whole again. Umbra cast over souls, shuffling, lost. Light crooning lullaby— […]