Amaranthe Ivory Violeta works, attends UTA and learns about life through teaching her two boys. She is currently developing her first poetry chapbook.
"Lunar Love" is in Short Circuit #06, Short Édition's quarterly review.
She, a wayward rock comes flying through the vault of heaven crashing
into you.
You are struck, captivated by the impact, and before you can even flicker a piece of you
is gone.
Her, love is an arrant thief in the night forever, in your orbit forever, summoning your waves forever,
Not long after she moved – ties cut, no looking back, he'd never find her on that side of town anyway, if he bothered to look – she found a string of Christmas lights at the thrift store when she
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I picked the rod tip up and swung it back to eleven o'clock, then snapped my wrist. The line flew out over the water, unfurling. At its maximum length, it settled on the water's surface with hardly a
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