Eight and a Half Lilies in October
The last words the family had spoken to her / were to say they dumped the flowers in / the garbage.
R.B. Simon
R.B. Simon is a queer writer of African, Native- and European-American descent. She has been published in multiple journals, among them the Terra Preta Review, The Green Light Literary Journal, Blue Literary Journal, Electric Moon, Cutleaf Journal, and Literary Mama, and she has upcoming work appearing in Sky Island Journal, Minnow Literary Magazine, Strange Horizons, and the Hyacinth Review. Her poem Clutter was shortlisted for the 2022 Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, The Good Truth, released in July 2021 from Finishing Line Press. She is currently living in Madison, WI with her spouse, young adult daughter, and four unruly little dogs.