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Golden Rays
by Sophia Falco
The man on the moon
shoots the sun,
some golden rays fizzle out.
The darkening sky
does not deter me from
walking my tiger in circles
on the cracked wooden floor
in my yellow bricked
apartment.
(Red leash bedazzled with rhinestones.)
I sigh creating a void,
orange and black stripes
disappear—
remaining rhinestones.
I pick up each sparkling
jewel and arrange
them in a star.
Sophia Falco is a poet and will be a senior this upcoming academic school year at The University of California, Santa Cruz where she studies intensive literature with a creative concentration for poetry. Her poems have been published in Stigma Fighters, The Mindful Word, The Esthetic Apostle [January 2019 & March 2019], The Festival Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Poetry Matters Project, and forthcoming in The Raw Art Review and The Beautiful Space. In her free time she is an epic gardener. The tallest sunflower she grew was 16 feet tall.
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