Hope Ann Valentine, from Volume 2:2

Hope Ann Valentine is a freewheeling twenty-one-year old currently living in Northern California. She is a firm believer in Bob Dylan ethics and WWJD. She'll be relocating to the East Coast this spring after she graduates with a degree in government and journalism. Her main occupation is being a child of the Earth, but she hopes to pursue a career in international affairs journalism and to keep adventuring. You can contact her, or creep on her, at www.hopeannvalentine.tumblr.com.

Below is excerpted "Butterflies for Christopher," Valentine's poem in Volume 2:2.

          "People put up walls that protect nothing."
          Ignoring this assessment, I proceed: "How are you?"

          [...]

          Maybe the canary loved my grandmother. Maybe it respected how
               she'd situated its
          existence: "I don't understand this, but this is how I ought to be,
               this is how I was placed."

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To read Valentine's quirky prose poem, peek inside Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 2:2.