Front Porch Review
A literary magazine for the young at heart and mind

Like crows they rose in a violence
against the sky, a dark constellation,
until they were flying, turning, turning
into the sun, losing themselves
in distance, weaving into a black
scarf until they unraveled westward,
taking with them what I’d once dreamed
for myself, all I believed and now
                        cannot name.

By Ariana D. Den Bleyker

Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in upstate New York where she is a wife, mother of two, and an insurance geek. When she’s not underwriting, editing, or writing, she’s spending time with her family and every once in a while sleeps. She is the author of five chapbooks and two collections. She is the founder of ELJ Publications, LLC and Editor-in-Chief of Emerge Literary Journal and scissors & spackle. She can be found at www.arianaddenbleyker.com Her e-mail address: