“I am here”
is one of the best sentences
in the world.
“I”: all that is swimming inside me.
“I”: the worlds building themselves hot within me.
“Here”: this place where light reflects off toothache.
“Here”: this place where the air shapes to fit us.
“Here”: this place where kittens leave footprints
and it is a miracle.
I am here
in all this light.
Aleph Altman-Mills is a fifteen-year-old autistic writer who loves swinging and skirts. She has been published in The Legendary, Words Dance, and Mobius, among others. She blogs and posts poetry snippets at really-fucking-confused.tumblr.com.