TELL ME A BEAUTIFUL STORY
ALM No.79, August 2025
POETRY
Tell me a beautiful story you said
One about the trees, the sky, an insect you saw, a frog, a poem, a smell, what you made for breakfast.
I smiled and tasted rainwater on the most beautiful day and promised that I would.
Squinting from the sun, I promised.
Tomorrow.
I plunge into the depths below and the ice chills my body. Darkness and loneliness. I kick and struggle and scream and burst through the surface.
I press a hand to my face and my fingers come back wet.
Laying in grass on the most beautiful day.
The grass bleeds on me. And I wrote a poem about it. About how grass can cut as a blade would. And how for once I didn’t hate myself but rather would sit down next to myself on a bench by the lake, and be quiet, listening to the waves.
Tomorrow.
I promised.
Leah Smith: I am an emerging writer on Cape Breton Island and have been writing for the past 4 years of my life. I am currently trying to have my work published to build up a rapport for experience and perhaps eventually, a collection of my own. Some of my work is currently undergoing publication with the magazine 'Blank Spaces' for the 2025 September review.
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