Contributor: Linda M. Crate

- -
you want tired eyes
closing for sleep
to tell you that you are beautiful;

we all look for validation in all the wrong
places, trying too hard to push
a square through a
circle—

we are committed to being offended,
tv dinners, and misery.


- - -
Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015.