8/12/12

Lovely As Regret
By Linda M. Crate


you're lovely as regret unutterable,
and I fell for your charisma and
charm; I thought you were the
glistening diamond of my heart's
desire, but you were just the villain
that would impale me with his
venomous words - then he'd keep
twisting the dagger until my heart
was swept away in a ruby flood;
once upon a time in golden autumn
laughter I thought there was a
chapter for you and I yet you
were merely the poisoned apple that
would have led to certain death
had I not found prince charming.


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Linda Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh, but she was raised in the rural town of Conneautville. She has recently moved to Fort Fairfield, ME. She attended and graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English-Literature in 2009. She has a passion for writing that she has nurtured since the age of thirteen. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines the latest of which includes: Nebo: A Literary Journal and Visceral Uterus.