I pick the brightest and biggest one I can find. Carefully, because they’re delicate. I hold it up and tip my head back, catching the drops on my outstretched tongue as they slip out of the shallow hole in the center of the flower. Honeysuckle.Sickly sweet. My mom planted the bushes herself. Dug into the hard ground and planted two of them behind my brothers’ window … [Read more...] about In The Red, By: Tori Flint
Tori Flint
About Tori Flint
Tori K. Flint, Ph.D., is originally from Arizona and is an Associate Professor of Literacy and Early Childhood Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A lover of poetry and punk, she is working on a lyrical memoir called (W)Hole. Her poem on Poetry Catalog is "In The Red," published in August 2024.
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