Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His prose poems have appeared in Unlikely Stories Mark VI, The Twin Bill, and Keeping the Flame Alive. In addition, Brockley's work is forthcoming in AGNI Magazine, The Dolomite Review, and Visiting Joni: Poems and Short Prose Inspired by the Life and Work of Joni Mitchell.
How does a lover’s tongue remember the world’s 118 ways to say I love you. The rhapsody of black coffee and green tea, of periwinkle and an unread novel. February’s yellow, Nordic socks. Her never having tasted a ripe persimmon. The brown birthmark on the inside of her right thigh, the silence when she turned her head toward a private joy. The mammal salt. Sleeping in the shadow of her dreams. Strolling through Detroit on Thanksgiving morning. At the shank of winter, a full moon draws near with its red appetite. When was the last time I felt such awe.
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