Author: Karina Coghlan
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Winter Is Finally Here
A little boy and girl glide across the icy patio, pretending to be hockey players. As night falls, the air freezes their cheeks. They giggle as they watch each puff of breath turn white and dissipate. How joyous it is that winter is finally here. One small snowflake lands on the girl’s nose. “It’s snowing!”…
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Poetry – A Ballad Heard By Clovers
Meet me in the fields of four-leaf clovers on a Wednesday afternoon. There we sit amongst the butterflies, in reverie about the time gone by. The undulating clovers listen to secret conversations drifting in the air. Past confessions once sung and plucked on the strings of a pink guitar, Remind me of the way I…
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The Farmer’s Wife
The sun rises, the rooster crows, and two bare feet, instead of four, hit the dirt floor. A puff of dust swirls across the ground with each step the farmer takes towards the door. It creaks open revealing the insipid morning. The farmer starts his day feeding the chickens and collecting eggs. Next he…
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Poetry – Becoming Wind
My dwelling memories of so long ago seem like a mirage. The images in my head are nothing more than a collage. It seems we’ll never meet again in this world of a kaleidoscope. You’ve flown so far away from me; I couldn’t see you even with a telescope. People use each other while feelings…
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Poetry – Ambition And Deceit
Ambition ran to the edge of the storm,Stopped and looked back for the last time, wanting more.Without hesitation, Ambition walked farther away,Not owing forgiveness for the heartbreak she felt. There was no reason to stay.Deceit stood firm in the eye of Hurricane Michael.She continued to read her Bible,Tell the town she was kind, but befriended…