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Jo McCrory is a writer and artist living in northern California.

  • day 3/30

    prompt: the sweetest bite of the new season from esb.poems on Instagram 

    the sweetest bite of the new season
    when i stun my younger self and
    stand beneath a cloud of cherry blossoms,
    listen to the stinging things buzz around me;
    i pretend i am a flower and you are a bee
    who lands on my petals and tickles me
    with probing legs and an eager mouth
    until you are coated and sticky,
    drowsy and drunk on me
    and you fall asleep in
    the cocoon of my blossom,
    satiated and warm

    -rjm

  • day 2/30

    rising from beneath the surface
    breaking through the ice
    to a dawn i never thought
    these eyes would witness
    coming home to a new day
    that is as comfortable
    as the day i was born
    these feet will carry me 
    over rocks and hills
    will carry me onward 
    and onward
    become the fins that
    push me to the surface
    to break through the ice
    to break through to a new day

    -rjm