Barbara Hughes
Mind Lust
My mind refuses what it wants
wet with my wistfulness and why wind why
go gather quickly before every shadow has
dispersed everywhere but beside you
when I am alone my hands cling
to the cut flowers and butterflies
turning into a toss of breath no more no less
Into the light you leave me grasping as if there is no other
how are you never in the same room?
when you are
it's my only refuge
the other is intruding
evidence that life once flashed
before its own divine
and before the mirror that breaks itself
every billion years
Bio
Barbara Hughes is an English major at Rollins College. Her poetry has been published in campus magazines Brushing and The Independent and most recently featured in online publications Alpha Female Society and 3Moon Magazine. She won the American Academy of Poet's prize for National Poetry Month. In her spare time, she drinks potent coffee, finds her inner goddess through writing, and has long conversations with the moon.