Jaro graduates high school and bids goodbye for summer vacation. All she has to worry about is which stream to pursue. Science? Arts? Or the stream in the sea? She has this thing. Multiple personality disorder, they say. She drives to the university for her admission. Air chimes. An unusual blow hits her hard. She […]
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Romeo is sixteen years old and from Australia. “i wish i knew where you came from.” that was haze. her. where, of any place i had been where freedom was even a viable option, could such a place be considered my home? there was a quiet turbulence in all who passed my way, including all […]
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When the clouds are impregnated with infinite droplets of water, delicate enough to bequeath upon you a lifetime of experiences, and so Herculean enough to drown you away. A curtain of rain descends down from heaven, as a solemn dance for all humanity. As if it pens its own poetry to the cadence of its […]
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On the best most special kind of Friday afternoons I’d sit in the velvety backseat of my father’s Buick, a tangled bundle of excitement, because it was time for a weekend at the house— “Aunt” Joanie’s house, where the cabinets were stocked with sour apple Blow-Pops, and my Lite Brite waited for me upstairs. Joanie’s […]
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And for the nth time I bend back my head Laughing at the absurdity of it all I realized what a little piece of heaven you are In a world full of hell
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I am from glorified rice and scalloped potatoes, from floors washed on hands and knees, carpets vacuumed stubby; from lemon wedges rubbed in the armpits of old white t-shirts. I am from Alfreda and Erna, and three dead husbands between them. From Sunday morning polka hour and faking sick to miss church. I’m from Come, […]
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In Fort Myers, the weather doesn’t change much. Despite this, my grandmother will always tell you about the sun, how it chars your skin red as a valentine. How the birds, paying no mind to the humidity, will sing throughout the persistent Florida summers. How even the rain brings no sympathy from the heat. Every […]
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Safe came in a spiral notebook. the tattoos left behind by lead showed me the unfiltered girl I’d almost marooned, buried in my labyrinth of words. all along, I’d thought she was hiding out of fear from the outside world, but the blank page was her utopia, its blue prison bars: her safe haven. Home […]
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we are suppressing ourselves the women in my family have engraved a distinct self hatred into the lining of their skin carved food rules into their bellies depositing magic pills and coffee grounds diet culture is tightly coiled around our vocal cords the women in my family are sick looking into the mirror with eyes […]
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