Raina Masters

The broken way we love

Through parts that barely fit together,
stretched out seams that light infiltrates.

A gentle shove to stir, a poke
a prod - a reminder
of everything that is wrong with how
we sleep and wake and sleep again.

We stumble through this union,
bang our heads on a flimsy foundation
scrape change and cut coupons to cash in
a guilty pleasure or two,
just trying to remember the taste of
what we used to call a good time,
an idiotic notion.

We stay up late and go nowhere,
lay in bed and stare at the ceiling,
at the curtains being jostled by air vent heat.

Repeat. Resent. Repeat.


Raina Masters writes poems, occasionally shares them and is hoping to submit more in the future. Raina spends most of her time daydreaming about faraway places and loves music, the quiet of a walk in cold weather and the happiness a warm blanket provides.
 

Current Issue:
January 2013

Mandy Jo Angleberger
Natalie Carpentieri
Holly Day
James H. Duncan
Don Kloss
Kirby Light
Raina Masters
Linda Price

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