United States Cotolo, a widely published author and award-winning journalist, has been a professional writer for over three decades. His poetry, prose, reports, editorials, comedy and spoken humor have appeared over the years in small-press and commercial magazines as 14 followers / 1.5k words
I felt the weight of the world and carried it through a tunnel with all my might and there you were, a bit beaten, a bit frightened and yet ready to set your senses aflame so I dropped the world and embraced you.
You look so deeply alive in red, like a flame about to lose control. There was a moment I saw you kneeling, with your shoulders steamingly smooth and my desire was fuel for the flame, and I did not need to gather wood.
These days that come like a circus burning to the ground and leave with ashes on a clown’s lips when the hot air of sunset smells like smoke and then there is a stillness that rivals death with an evening that is silent because the crickets dare not mate.