By Margaret Marcum
PROMPT — What is Love?
I can’t stand up
on my own, love
twists into confusion
when the one you want,
doesn’t want you back.
You took my heart out
the door, and I didn’t
even hear it close.
We don’t know what love is,
so we explore it by dissecting
the heart—splitting it wide open.
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Margaret Marcum recently graduated from the MFA program in creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Barzakh Magazine, Coffin Bell Journal, NonBinary Review, The Islandia Journal, October Hill Magazine, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and Children, Churches, and Daddies, among others. She writes from Woodway, Texas.