by Arya F. Jenkins

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.