love – Page 3 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

JOLENE

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Courtney LeBlanc

“And I could easily understand how you could take my man but you don’t know what he means to me.”–Dolly Parton, “Jolene” We were over by then, completely finished. We’d both been through the five stages of grief but I circled back to depression. You asked what you could do Read more

To a Sailor

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Anon Feminine Collective

I’ll see you again when my sail catches the winds and my bow faces in your direction before the man in the sky sets the time I’ll reach out and stretch across the flat earth grab a hold and wonder how I waited so long for paradise until then I’m Read more

Saranzaya

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Nazli Karabiyikoglu

We were startled at first when we found out he was detaching her from the purple flowers of her mountain and bringing her to our house. He had given the news ten days before his arrival, had told that it would take three days to go to Ulan Bator from Read more

A Storm in Milton, Georgia

June 18, 2019June 19, 2019 Elizabeth Markley

Emma had been kicked out of her house. This was a first, for Emma or for her siblings, and it really did not strike her as fair. She had not actually done anything, as in, performed an action or committed a crime. All she did was remind her mother of Read more

The Brothers

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Cate Carlyle

Mr. Harley was one of those fun, quirky uncles who filled a room, except he wasn’t family. He was always at our house. I can clearly picture him perched up on dad’s ladder, a roll-your-own smoke dangling from his bottom lip, one long muscled arm holding a ream of wallpaper Read more

Blue-Aged Love

March 19, 2019July 9, 2019 Christina Strigas

I search for you like a lost lover of jazz, I find you in the dim as you play a deceiver of love, where love is never free prices to pay at every bank vault. Waiting for musical clouds to form in all the shapes we always talked about. A Read more

EMBERS AND ASH

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Jacqueline Cioffa

I wrote EMBERS AND ASH some years ago. I don’t remember the precise day; I only remember the unlucky circumstance. I needed to come home. I was unwell. Truth? I was out of my fucking mind, and the only person I wanted, needed and trusted was the one who birthed Read more

Diffraction

January 27, 2019August 13, 2021 Judith Staff

She senses it, anticipates it, as it’s preceded by a look; His eyes are on her, even though she doesn’t meet his gaze. His hands smoothing her hair down her back, he kisses her lips. His breathing warm, softly delivering “You’re so beautiful” into the curve of her neck. He Read more