Pianist at the River by Martina Petrovic, photograph, 2011.
Future
by: Brittany Zambrano
As you highlight the phrase, I strike my yellow lighter
and flame up the head.
It burns all the way, as the yellow ink bleeds
through the page.
We are both fighters, holding tight to our future.
A yellow marker between your silk finger tips,
And a mellow bud between my stilled, chapped lips.
You race to reach the end, as I inhale
“straight and fast.”