as i watch the world pass by outside my window (and by world, i mean the seven screaming seagulls that seem to survive only off …
whispers
i have to write my thoughts down for them to become real, otherwise they melt away like wispy clouds into the azure i have to …
Leyla Hussein: un esbozo
[Content warning: this article includes mentions of physical violence on women.] A profile. From the old Italian profilo, from profilare, meaning to sketch lightly, what …
School Girls: Constructing the Past in Fiction and Memory
Back in my hometown due to the coronavirus, in the timelessness of however many months it has been since March, I have been thinking about …
A Mistake A Year On
Today. I knew he was looking, Since class. Since going into class. (And yes, I know, I know, I know, Him, again. But I want …
A Teenage Brain on Antidepressants
My soul is crushed like a hard candy shellThe universe sprinkled with dots of my painConsciousness spreading, disappearing, existingA life without meaning is one lived …
end
each year at the end of summer, I always find myselfperched on my window-sill some years with a cigarette hanging from my fingers,with hopes that …
Young
cw: violence, self-inflicted violence Sometimes I long to shove a knife into my spinal column.To spear the little red ball of anger and frustrationAnd kill …
MOTHER MIGHT
Might of a valorous tigress, chasing hopes up the fervescent hill,Femininity is no hindrance to overcoming the obstacles life places before her.She travails eclipsing her …
The English Word
I am not the night, girlIt is not then when I comeA scattered spurt of silver starsThe silent sex of ship and shoreWhere rich wood …