by Arya F. Jenkins
En dansant sur la terrasse
A fleet of white hibiscuses
Flits across concrete
Knowing it does not have long
Its youthful vigor spills at once
A wave of purity and ambivalence
Its hands stretch toward the future
That does not wait long.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Arya F. Jenkins is a Colombian-American poet and writer whose poems have been published in numerous journals and zines such as Agave Magazine, Blue Heron Review, Cider Press Review, Dying Dahlia Review, The Ekphrastic Review, The Feminist Wire, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, IO Literary Journal, Otis Nebula, Poetica Review, Rag-Queen Periodical, and Voice of Eve. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her poetry chapbooks are: Jewel Fire (AllBook Books, 2011), Silence Has A Name (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and Love & Poison (Prolific Press, 2019). Her short story collection Blue Songs in an Open Key (Fomite Press, 2018) is available here.