7/25/12

The Unexpected Compliment
By Linda M. Crate


you're the unexpected compliment on a rainy
day to cut through the penetrating gloom
of the darkest dawn; you shimmer sun
star gold to brighten my darkest mood you've
made the topography of a smile remember the
corners of my face when I thought it was
doomed to remain a brook of misery, desolation
dotted these fields and birthed islands of the
bitterest discontent you took my dead blossoms and
filled my plains with brightly colored wildflowers.


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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.