 
 
Nights of Lights
Suspended lights whose glow glides against a smoldering sunset,
While the color of navy eyeshadow creeps an ashy stroke along a darkening sky.
Lightning bugs flutter between incendiary bodies,
Propagating waves across the uncompromising emptiness of space,
Landing like stardust on our already over-heated skin.
We wait for talismans,
Some message in defiance of the chaos,
Against chance and unforeseen encounters.
We take flight on brittle wings in search of a compass,
Any indication that this direction is better than that one,
This path is worth forgoing another,
Chasing, fluttering, darting, surging after the smallest hint
That our journey is something more than a Möbius strip,
An infinite path of repetitions and failures,
Or an endless flitting of moth wings around a rusted gas lamp,
Each flinging themselves against the flames,
All the while dreaming of the sun.
– from “Slant Rhyme,” a short romance featured in Heart’s Desire: A Contemporary Romance Collection from The New Romance Cafe.
All proceeds from this collection go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
About Slant Rhyme:
Belmira Saez (Bel) is a poet who struggles with anxiety.
Daniel Parker is an engineer whose life is at a crossroads.
Two lives in flux when Daniel stumbles into a bookstore during Bel’s poetry reading.
Two ordinary people in need of an extraordinary connection.
