Category: Flash Spotlight

Words: nosy, forbid, mulled, travel, unravel, submission

Unraveled

by Linda Gordon

In my new sweater, sitting cosy,
Drinking my tea,
I daydreamed and mulled
As my cat became nosy
About a fray I didn’t see
She pulled
She undid
Before I could forbid
She quickly traveled
The hooked yarn unraveled
The yarn, without cognition
Followed in submission
Neither with any contrition

Rosie’s Last Hope

by Nancy Forbis-Stokes

When her boyfriend had to travel for work, he forbade Rosie to leave the house, expecting her usual submission. She mulled over approaching Anne, the neighbor her boyfriend called “nosy.” Had Anne unraveled the cause of her bruises? Rosie knocked on Anne’s door. Opening it, Anne cried, “Let me help!”

Words: deliberate, degree, sign, native, approach, inability

Garden Rights by Linda Gordon

If at the first sign you hesitate

to approach…

And, instead, linger to deliberate

The degree to which

Those native-born weeds

Can assimilate and cross-pollinate,

With warp speed, they will propagate

And your inability to eradicate

Them from your carefully planted seeds

Might be grounds to capitulate

Marital Distress by Shawn Blakeley

He was native to the silence, to the degree he never imagined. Jacob deliberately approached Kayla. She gave no sign of notice of his inability to communicate his true feelings. He’d try once more.

“Kayla, I’ve been a fool. I love you always will.”

She stood up and walked away