flowers

by Kezia Burgoyne

I wandered the graveyard today; 

It’s the flowers. 

They’re driving me into madness. 

It is sickening to see shriveled petals burning on gravestones. 

And worse are the live ones;

their colors mock the dead.

Kezia Burgoyne is from Oahu, Hawaii. She writes for the local newspaper and is currently an undergraduate student studying Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is happiest when skateboarding, talking with strangers, and scribbling poetry.