SAMUEL SVOBODA

One of us will be buried first, and get a head start on turning into dirt. Until the day we’re together again, and can whisper our...

You said to me, on that late summer morning, “I don’t see a future anymore,” and that was the end. But I still see it, sometimes, when...

The fire touches all the kindling—each of the logs—and with time nothing is neglected. Everything gets transformed, ash and smoke, sent...

Maybe when you watch your life flash before your eyes it’s all in reverse, until you’re a child again catching fireflies in the summer...

Sometimes the world just seeps away. The houses shed their bricks. The streets molt their pavement. And it's all replaced by something...

Sometimes I look up at the sky and the space between the stars is measured in inches. The lightyears and galaxies have been ironed flat...

I had my first love in high school but we broke up, as most high school couples do, and haven’t spoken much since. People have to leave...

If a sinner found themselves in Heaven, should the angel conspire for salvation or for damnation and would the The Divine Comedy in...

I think of the first conscious man, and wonder if he panicked at his first sunset over whether light and warmth were leaving him forever....

I remember racing against my father on Higgins Beach in Maine during one summer while I was attending Swanson Middle School. It was that...

I saw you, just a few months before the end, and you said you felt fine—you were tough. You said we didn’t need to have that...

I want to fall in love like the first creature crawling from the sea onto the land. To leave all that is known for a chance to see the...

These words burn and blaze. For all of their screams and cries, it is not pain, but passion. These words find no reverie. They find only...

Come on out you reckless thoughts The lights are out and no one is around Come crawl your way from between the cracks And sit in front of...

Lightness, noun, being able to let go. Of people. Of dreams. Of the Earth itself. I am light, I tell myself, I take myself lightly, and...