Because Life

because life is so awful

we fill our days with beauty

we try to find the finest wine

pouring it into Waterford glasses

and drink to each other

 

your dark eyes lined with care but also

fully displayed the slightest

blush on your cheek your ears

and throat ravishing under

curling black hair

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Richard Donnelly lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Classic flyover land. Which makes us feel just a little… superior. His first book, The Melancholy MBA, is published by Brick Road Press of Columbus, Georgia.

Photo Credit: William C. Crawford is a writer and photographer living in Winston-Salem, NC. He was a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. He subsequently had a long career in social work. He taught at UNC Chapel Hill. Crawdaddy recently published his first fiction work. His photography emphasizes the the trite, trivial, and mundane. He eschews most computer manipulation opting instead to rely on forensic foraging–a technique which emphasizes photography as recording everyday images. He is a frequent visitor to the Southwest.