Great one, Anthi. I appreciated the juxtiposition of last 3 lines of each of the first two stanzas and how the third stanza ties it all together.

PS: I enjoyed the Vocal story. I tried to comment there but it's still telling me I have to verify my email address, which I had already done. I did subscribe to you there after reading it. I hope they send me email alerts because I doubt I'll be logging in to Vocal. I noticed two typos in the story. "She owes six of the stores" I think is supposed to be "owns" and "whether spelled in churches or somewhere else" I think is supposed to be "spilled" but not sure of that one.