Wind-whipped splotches
of red all along her jaw.
Tears dripped over her chin,
down to her collarbones.
 

His eyelids were heavy;
a boxer’s wrists after a match;
slumped with defeat;
exhausted.
 

He closed his eyes,
shook his head,
brought his hands up to
 

Stop. Flinch.
A small gasp was
sucked in and suffocated.
 

“Did you think I was going to…?”

 

Julia Kinel is a Sophomore and an English major at SUNY Geneseo. She is a member of the Alpha Delta Epsilon sorority and works in the School of Education. She is from Syracuse, New York.