A fiery orange flower in the middle of a blurry frame, the blur forming almost a circle around the puffy petals of the flower. A green stem connects to the great orange head, and the colors surrounding the flower is a blur of greens, blues, and browns.

Blurry Kindness

BY MADARI PENDAS


Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer and visual artist. She received her MFA from Florida International University, where she was a Lawrence Sanders Fellow. Her work has appeared in Craft, The Masters Review, PANK Magazine, and more. She is the author of Crossing the Hyphen (2021).

Image Credit: “Beauty Brightens All” by Daniel Lentz
Dan Lentz is a retired engineer from Milwaukee with time to garden, tell puns, and Skype with the grandkids.