moment’s silence/ false spring
damn the false start-
the magnolias have come too soon
their petals like beads of broken rosary
clung to the wet pavement.
the rain, the pulp of it between my fingers
are no remedy for what has gone-
my mouth no more,
that season no longer.
damn the false start-
the magnolias have come too soon
their petals like beads of broken rosary
clung to the wet pavement.
the rain, the pulp of it between my fingers
are no remedy for what has gone-
my mouth no more,
that season no longer.
McCaela Prentice is a Maine Writer and graduate of St. Lawrence University. She is currently living/writing in New York City with her betta fish Skeletor. Her poetry has previously been featured in Ghost City Review, Lammergeier Magazine, and Honey & Lime Literary Magazine. McCaela was also an honorable mention in the 2019 Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor.