On Saturday, I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary with my husband. In honor of that milestone, this week’s featured pieces look at romantic love.
Dwayne Thorpe, in his poem “Falling in Love Again,” contemplates the interconnectedness of love, loneliness, perception and mortality.
Michele Hromada’s story, “Voodoo Love,” follows a woman willing to do anything to find true love.
Scott Stambach, in his introspective story, “The Quiet Catharsis of Igor Isaenko,” explores the possibility of love flourishing in the most poisonous setting.
Daniel J. Langton, in his poem, “In Ireland the Notes to the Milkman Are Poems,” uses a playful metaphor to describe passion.
About Alyce Wilson
Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.
