Lumina Miller

Lumina Miller has a BA in English from the University of Iowa. She works as an ER nurse, enjoys the blue light of the early morning, and the prospect of possibility. Her work has been published by literary magazines The Write Launch, The Banyan Review, Unleash Lit, and Drunk Monkeys.

“Gardenias,” “87 years ago,” “Eyrinyes”

Skin stippled with drops from the emerald canopy
quietly content with the other,
no need to speak over
the rustling soundtrack of ironwood sway.

“Takers”

Picking at the bones,
they feed from residual
ligaments left
post quiet carving

began with disinterest
proceeding to tsks tsks then
disregard