I want more, not less.
more of many things
that aren’t like dust
My rightful due?
I’ll snatch with a raptor’s thrust
what surely should be mine
To share or not?
time will tell whether
I’ll be kind
My tattered heart
wants a hard change,
one that won’t fray in a hurricane
I’m thinking, wrought iron
flexed by a fiery form
that can weather any storm
A Phoenix will suffice for this,
from cauldron rising, wings extended
transfigured and never apprehended
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Firm Resolve
by Janet Guastavino
Janet Guastavino is a native Californian and a fifth-generation San Franciscan. She has been writing poetry for the past seventeen years and has been published digitally and in hard copy. She curates a website called “The Crone’s Words,” (https://croneswords.page) that features poetry and flash fiction about mental health and emotional well-being, written by women fifty-five and older.
