by Lunchbox Editor | Dec 5, 2024
It is quiet in this garden, the hidden heaven where I’ve placed myself today. The sun bakes my neck, I arrange my easel, palette knives, paints, brushes into some semblance of organization. The hum of the trees, alive with birds, bugs, and branches that catch the wind...
by Lunchbox Editor | Dec 5, 2024
To Ms. Illusive Future, I see you at the end of the day– heavy lids, blank ceilings, focused breathing– the fanfictions I write between the seconds and minutes that pass in the unknowing. Oh, Ms. Illusive Future, I hear you in the echoes of...
by Lunchbox Editor | Dec 5, 2024
In Search of Such a Place I stare at the picture of us that I haven’t stopped to look at for years. She is 7 at the aquarium. She wears an orange sundress, her hair is in pigtails. She flashes a grin with her front teeth missing. She holds up a peace...
by Lunchbox Editor | Dec 5, 2024
A Sight He Can’t See She watches him from eye to eye, a quiet sigh and a losing fight. Her heart is closed, yet it waits for him. But he drifts his own way, unaware, and she’s still lost on this past year’s Valentine’s Day air. He laughs, he...
by Lunchbox Editor | Dec 5, 2024
In every new land, a fresh chapter unfolds Starting afresh, each story untold crafting memories, telling old ones goodbye Longing for a past, a time left behind Irreplaceable moments, treasures I find continents, states, with all this change, one thing...
