Mitzi Viola

May we humanize

We were firmly set in our positions, content to lob insults, lies, and memes across the…
Don’t push the pond

A tentative spring arrived at the pond behind my house. A network of green water plants…
Completion

We come into this world at once tethered by spirit to the genesis of all this…
Remembrance

When my father was young, he and his kid brother donated their tricycle for the war…
Valid

You know the game – on this day 25 years ago [fill in the blank]. It’s…
Crow’s nest

From her high evening perch, the beacon’s lamp is small, a warm orb that highlights white…
Dear buyers,

There’s a drop shuffle shuffle off the steps from the den to the kitchen. A natural…
Snow globe

It must have been a child who shook my snow-globe world with careless jolts and jerks…