Norton After Dark

By Ave Goorbarry

Miami music moves the rhythm and sway of hips. / Finding solace under the palms of night, / under hands of another who moves their hands to hips too fast too quick / when the hips, heat, humidity muddle in words of sway. / Purple blue strobes coat the eyes and skin / and brown and ivory bodies turn blue. / She grabs your face and you’re reminded of what it’s like to feel / nails on your cheek / fingers on your temples. / When you spin her and she sways / back to you, joint body / “Y me dicen todo lo que estás pensando.” / When the singer makes her presence known in the speakers. / The singer singing and whipping brown hair to the guitarists / ‘round her drummer / and to the crowd too quiet and sitting. / But her and I, we dance among the trees / on lit pathway / underneath the orange lamps and yellow moon.

Ave Goorbarry is a 17-year-old writer born in New Jersey and currently resides in South Florida. Ave's writing has won awards regionally from Scholastic Art and Writing, and has previously been published in The Firefly Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Limelight Review, and forthcoming in Dead Skunk Mag and The Bibliopunk Zine. Find Ave on Instagram and Twitter at @avegoorbarry for all things writing and R&B.