After Jupiter

Digital poetry collage inspired by mythology

Melissa Nunez lives and creates in the caffeinated spaces between awake and dreaming. She makes her home in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas, where she enjoys observing, exploring, and photographing the local flora and fauna with her three home-schooled children. She is a column contributor at The Daily Drunk Mag. She is also a staff writer for Alebrijes Review and Yellow Arrow Publishing. You can follow her on Twitter: @MelissaKNunez.

Melissa is a returning contributor to Soft Star Magazine with work in Issue One and on the cover of Issue Two: Aurora.

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Transcript:

That I could brim your brilliance
within these limbs, but time
sits thick between us. I scale

skies for you, slip bold into black
blankets of space. For what is want

of water in your waves of light?
Held fast in this forever flight.

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