Ava Mack

Joined June 2021

38 stories

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Poetry and little thoughts

Boston, MA

www.avamariemack.com

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Shower Song
After shoveling the shower whistling, its song fogging the mirror.
By Ava Mack15 days ago in Poets
The sharp and beautiful thing
In the night in some dark hour the dying was already over. Winter, the stalker, had pounced. At the far end of the platform
By Ava Mackabout a year ago in Poets
Imitation
The rigid planes climb skyward. Meanwhile, the silent birds float by, dip, rise.
By Ava Mackabout a year ago in Poets
Fifteen. First Place in Sensational II Challenge.
A finger scratches on a guitar string and abruptly I remember how the sunlight unzipped your peridot eyes under dappled summer leaves
By Ava Mackabout a year ago in Poets
I am, Sir, Silence Dogood
Sixteen-year-old Ben Franklin becomes a woman in print & name. Mrs. Silence Dogood, lonely middle-aged widower, has eyes, a mind, and much to say.
By Ava Mackabout a year ago in Poets
On Being Grateful You Used Pencil. Runner-up in Breakup Nonet Challenge.
I forgave your mistaking today for forever, for penciling hearts next to all the dates on the calendar of our lives together, I
By Ava Mackabout a year ago in Poets
Oh, moon
Every now and then I fall apart. Oh moon, comfort me how you comfort the mourners. Let me bury my burning face in the darkness of your shoulder. Oh moon,
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Poets
The Marble. Runner-Up in Misplaced Challenge.
My life began in a dentist's office in a prize basket shaped like a treasure chest. The office was a fascinating place. All day long, people and children of all ages cycled through the chairs as treasures of all kinds cycled through the basket: sticky, extendible jelly hands; temporary tiger tattoos; jade-colored beaded bracelets; spiky balls with spikes that ballooned out when you squeezed them. The dental work itself was almost always the same: 30-minute cleanings and 15-minute cavity fillings.
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Fiction
President Monroe Remembers the Crossing of the Delaware
We rank and file were kept ignorant. It was not for us to contemplate the meaning of war. We only knew its motions: "walk," "at ease," "to arms."
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Fiction
The Gulls. Runner-Up in Abecedarian Challenge. Top Story - February 2024.
All along the shallow bay, a crescently shaped boomerang, stones cobble with algae ribbons & shells dot the drying sand, marking edge &
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Poets
The Saturn Return
There's a cosmic correlation that happens around the age of twenty-nine known to astrologers as the Saturn Return. The slow-moving planet Saturn takes twenty-nine and a half years to complete its orbit around the sun and return to the exact same spot in the sky as it was on the day you were born. The Saturn Return is notoriously disruptive - known for upheaval and thrusting things taken for granted into question. Whether or not you believe in those influences (and I take it all with a few grains of salt) it makes sense that whenever you hit the natural cusp between your extended younger years and adulthood, you can expect uncertainty and apprehension with the onrush of big change. - Failing Up, by Leslie Odom, Jr.
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Motivation
Small Joy. Top Story - December 2023.
Focus on the small joy! Romanticize your life! What else can we puny humans do? What else can we enjoy? * Focus on the small joy!
By Ava Mack2 years ago in Poets