Frozen June by Beth Mulcahy

does it feel like summer where you are?

if i had the strength to believe in something

i would believe in this

if i could make myself 

vulnerable 

i would 

but it doesn’t feel like summer here

and i can’t make it

winter left a permanent mark

my faith buried in cynical snow

my heart bleeding ice

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Beth Mulcahy, a gen X-er from Dearborn, Michigan, lives in Northwest Ohio where she works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Beth lives with her husband, two teenage kids and loyal Havanese dog sidekick. She writes poetry, fiction and memoir and currently has work in Bombfire Literary Magazine and forthcoming in Potato Soup Journal and Anti-Heroin Chic.