Melissa Ann Goodwin is a poet, writer, yoga teacher, and lover of books, nature, and cats. She has written two novels for children, The Christmas Village and Return to Canterbury. Her work-in-progress is a novel based on her mother’s experience as an American girl in an English boarding school for orphans at the start of WWII.
The local tour guide believes in leather boots with wide toes. Sturdy soles. Protein for breakfast.
The young sailor said he would give me a modicum of love if I let him use my body as a harbor.
The ticket seller would prefer to meet the guests outside, order them shortest to tallest, take the most boisterous by the hand.
The skull-like villa lost / in a garden of dreams, / so seem the isle’s cimitero: ...
So here is the brief life / of men: what follows / went before of / that we know / nothing
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