Linda M. Crate
not my world
i am just an author interrupted
by reality,
i do not wish to be;
yet like pain sometimes it shouts
at me demanding to be heard—
i roll my eyes,
because my heart is a song
full of words;
a sky full of stars,
oceans full of fish and fantasy both—
this is not my world.
Bio
Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has sixteen published chapbooks the latest being: fairytale love (Magique Publishing, October 2025).