New poem, new track, new Thursday.
“The Other Woman.” A duet by Carrie Rudzinski and April Ranger.
Written July 2011.
Think of the firefly,
beating its bright pulse.
Think of the firefly
smashed against a child’s arm
because someone promised it would make his wrist glow
and he wanted to keep the light forever.
Think of the first love you ever destroyed
because you’d never known anything like it before,
like seeing your own heartbeat outside of yourself,
a flickering, luminescent miracle -
you wanted to crush it to your skin.
Think of the luster inside you,
that spark that blazed the first time
you bared yourself to another human being, said:
Call me brilliant as the sun,
or ugly as a naked bulb,
I am dangling before you
so you might not stumble.
of someone who knows exactly
what life is at stake. — Excerpt from “Human vs. Nature” by April Ranger
