honey bunch

by Marla Smith

grizzly between his bedsheets
he wakes with one simple contemplation
“who is a man like me?”
because calloused hands do not make a man.
what do you think?
“if you come from muck, you must be so.”
but oh how wrong he is.
he is like a thousand diamonds to me.

 

About the Author:

Marla Smith is a journalism student at UW-Milwaukee who enjoys hiking and concert photography.

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