Amanda McLeod
Love Language
I say my love language is baking.
That is only half true,
because, really, it’s poetry –
but baking is a socially
acceptable substitute,
and more innocuous.
I appear normal when I hand you
a basket of muffins
rather than a sheaf of papers.
For every poem
I wrote to you,
I will bake you a cookie.
You can share them
with all your friends
and nobody, not even you,
will think more of it than
wow, this person
is really into baking.
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land (Spartan Press, 2019) and The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press, 2020), and her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines.
Amanda McLeod is an Australian author, artist, and nature enthusiast. She’s the author of flash collection Animal Behaviour (Chaffinch Press, 2020) and the Managing Editor of Animal Heart Press. A lover of quiet time, she can often be found trying to block out the noise of the busy world any way she can. Catch her on Twitter and Instagram @AmandaMWrites and at her website amandamcleodwrites.com