August There is a rip in the clouds where morning begins, in slow motion, to unwrap the night, shifting the sky from coal to ash to sand, telling the quick brown bat to go home. Air remains motionless, cowering in silence as daylight presses its hot, heavy body against the earth, a wet moan sliding up my neck, mosquitoes like fingertips teasing where they don’t belong. Skye Nicholson is a part-time poet and founder and CEO of Soul's Truth Coaching, empowerment coaching services for women. She lives in Columbus, Indiana, with her husband and two children. Her first book of collected works, published December 2021, is entitled Unexpected Alchemy: Poems of Addiction and Awakening .
Flying Island is the Online Literary Journal of the Indiana Writers Center, accepting submissions from Midwest residents and those with significant ties to the Midwest.