Their Daughter by Martha Christina

Even in a small town

          no longer quite as small,

          news travels fast.


Today in the card shop

          the talk is all about

          the newcomers'

          teenage daughter,


how she balanced, briefly,
          on the bridge railing

          then took to the water

          like a flower,

          opening.

 

 

Martha Christina is a frequent contributor to Brevities. Longer work appears recently or is forthcoming in Bryant Literary Review, Muse Literary Journal, Naugatuck River Review, and in earlier postings of Red Eft Review. Her second collection, Against Detachment, was published in April by Pecan Grove Press.