Melody Newey Johnson

MELODY NEWEY JOHNSON’S poems have appeared in numerous print and on-line literary journals. Her work has also appeared in the Salt Lake Art Center in the collaborative art exhibit, Ceremonies of Innocence: The Girls Are Now Women. She lives and works as a registered nurse in Salt Lake City where she loves to garden with her husband and build sheet forts with grandchildren. Poetry is her native language.

The Color of Longing

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

After a painting by Emily Fox King

This blood, this longing was meant for
your particular darkness. That shadow,
the red droplet on the floor, a new wound:
These are mine to name. And in my name
you are known, no less worthy than your
brother. No less chosen for this canvas of
violence and change.