Magpie Tales

Sealed With A Kiss

SEALED WITH A KISS

Lonely hearts
during times of war
are sometimes
soothed by words
written by hand, and then signed
and sealed with a kiss.

2016-03-09
P. Wanken

caroline knopf

PIRATE’S PRINCESS

No longer
anchored, her heart sang
as she stood
firmly on
shore’s edge; his ship slipped into
hazy horizon.

2016-02-08
P. Wanken

Adolphe Valette

MYSTERY IN MANCHESTER

Wary eyes
peer through rain-glazed panes
as merchants
move through streets
unfazed, unaware of the
death between these walls.

2016-02-01
P. Wanken

photo by Francesca Woodman

DO I DANCE?

The question
rattled her brain while
she felt a
familiar
rhythm in her soul, begging
her to remember.

2016-01-25
P. Wanken

LOVE’S REFLEX(ion)
(a shadorma)

Soul laid bare
before her lover;
she will wait…
afraid to
look ahead, fights her reflex
to keep looking back.

2016-01-22
P. Wanken