N'Zuri Za Austin

“Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its
need
to be
one with me
drips
between my fingertips
as I squeeze perfect drops of love into small
receptacles to be preserved,

for later.”
― N'Zuri Za Austin, Fragments of a Reflection: Short Stories & Poetry

“She is
a poem.

She is an old one, a new one,
one waiting to be written.

She is.”
― N'Zuri Za Austin