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

Rest
Let her blue eyes
Worship you

Imagine her as
Naïve
Self-absorbed

Forgive her
As she whispers
Your name

For she dons a
Fashionable façade
For you

Forgiving
You, for your
Fancies

The terrors
She’s endured
Are tucked away

They’ve
Fashioned her
To fascinate you

By Kelly McNeal

Kelly McNeal works as well as raises her family and pets in New Jersey.  She has a Ph.D. from Fordham University in New York, NY.  Her recent poems appear in Slink Chunk Press, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine and Yellow Chair Review.  Kelly's own eyes enjoy worshipping the varied woodpeckers at her backyard feeders. Her email address: