Melinda Coppola

twenty four may | from the inside out

Melinda Coppola

twenty four may | from the inside out

Alone, I am island

I am an unpopulated island in a teeming quicksilver sea. I am a sturdy outcropping, raw, rocky, ravaged by two thousand years of volcanoes, seismic shifts. I am a testimony to the chaos from which all life begins. “We’ll smooth, says the ocean, it’s what we do— soothe and smooth and flatten your sharp edges, […]