Love Carnage
written by: Carrie Magness Radna
@cmrboxwoodstar1
New ribbon
now stripped of
its color, pinked
by shears, into
dark pinky threads,
from a hearty
red; dreading
its certain
destruction
after St. Valentines,
when the chocolate
strawberries are
gone. She wants
to leave behind
a souvenir
after the love
carnage; flecks
of once bloody
ribbon are now
mounted in
a scrapbook,
leaving a tail
or trail, like
bloody meat
scraps after
a night of
marathon sex
Carrie Magness Radna
Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords.com, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal (Muse-Pie Press), Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review, Litterateur RW and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her new poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was published in February 2021. She won Honorable Mention Award twice, for “all trains are haunted” (Non-rhyming poetry: 2019) and “May (a Pantoum)” (Rhyming poetry: 2021) in Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.
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