B
by Melena Barron
Brigham Young University
Melena Barron is currently a freshman at Brigham Young University, majoring in English.
B
B buzzes around
bringing brothers and best friends
It’s like the moment my breath is taken
because of a boy.
what a stupid reason.
It’s sound is brief on the tongue
like the time it took to have breakfast,
A patch of buttercup flowers blooms
B owns birthday bashes and big blue butterflies
There goes B again.
bringing babies and bassinets.
B’s beauty blows up, bang!
Suddenly,
Life boils down to bad breakups
and breakdowns
B leaves bruises
and blood on the bedroom floor.
B: two gravestones beside one another
One grave is filled,
a bassinet is barren.
so is the woman’s womb.
Beautiful and bitter
Bright and backhanded
Blissful and brutal,
B is a broken heart
when a baby
is buried