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strawberry jam
BY ARIANE LAUREN
Ruined hopes on buttered toast.
“No homemade jam this year.
Maybe there’ll be next summer.”
He claims, “We’ll make our own bread.”
Full bellied, my sweet dreams unsatisfied.
Ariane Lauren recently became a southwest desert dweller of Arizona. Her work has been published in Moon Cola, Orange Peel Literary, Amphoria, and The Minison Project. She loves the smell of the earth after it rains, visiting museums, and fruit so much that her special someone gave her the nickname 'fruit bat'. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @lil_ms_ariane .
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