Issue Thirty-Two - Summer 2018

Cinnamon Bun

By Sandra Kolankiewicz

People are generous except when they
aren’t, so much to either share or envy,
little indifference in between. Thank
you for handing me half your cinnamon
bun and part of the napkin that came with it,
for the moment is expanding still, the
goodness of spontaneous openness,
the urge to be in the space that exists
beside you and another instead of
just in the place where you usually live,
the giving without hesitation or
fear of losing something that is precious
to you, warm and sweet, spread with icing.

Copyright Kolankiewicz 2018

Sandra Kolankiewicz lives in Marietta, Ohio, which is in the southeast corner of the state at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers in the Appalachian foothills. Her poems and stories have appeared in North American Review, Confrontation, Chicago Review, Mississippi Review, and Cimarron Review. Her chapbook, Turning Inside Out, won the Black Lawrence Fall 2007 Competition. Her novel, Blue Eyes Don't Cry, won the 2008 Hackney Award for the Novel.

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