what does happiness taste like?

spring! two poems, a salad, + a prompt to keep you writing

Dear Ones,

Not a moment too soon. I’m desperate for the energy of a new bud.

To feel spring— the surprise of love, lilacs, lemon cake, big emotions, fierce protection, and fat rain— check this opening stanza and then click the link for the entire poem:

Lilac, by Matthew Dickman

One look at the lilac, one smell
and my childhood is — 

dogs scratching at the …