Meri McGuire McConn

As the Life of a Tree

"I know we're over," she said, her head hanging limp like a dying flower. Thirteen did not even have tears to cry.  Her head felt full and fiery, like

One. Two. Me.

1. That day when you came to stop me from saying "Goodbye, I love you." That night when you picked me up from the airport, when - again - I wanted it to

Scorpions

Give me a reason not to erase us from me, not to complete the job you are already doing so well. They drop bombs, here in the desert, where they harm no one

Still True

(tho singed and lost within the smoke of recent fires) I love you I know I say it all the time, (I love you) but I do I love your smile, and the

The One That Never Happened

He was one of Twenty-Six's childhood friends. He was beautiful, too - not in the same seductive way, but rather, in a way that made her stare, enamored, attempting for hours