A Good Little Girls Zine

Guest Post:

This tower that towers
Over me. Us.
Black shadow like a sun dial that
tracks our steps from C street.
This grass that burns emerald,
this sky like a lake,
this feeling like leaving.

36491 bricks sealed together.
555 feet.
A decade of remember-when.
Kites on strings –
daredevils through the sky – and our
fingers stiff like ice.
The view from the summit,
the triangular point you can
Always see.

This is a last
that hits between the chilly
gust of yellow pollen wind.
Standing in the middle of it all –
white marble columns,
glinting metal chairs light with
centuries of bone.

This tower that towers
Over me. Us.

Picture of Sonia Chintha

Sonia Chintha

Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.

Social Media

Most Popular

You Might Also Like...

Scream: Resist Woman

Scream: Resist Woman by Sonia Chintha Illustration by Jill Kimura “Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is” – Glennon Doyle When I

Read More

If, Then

1.  If a student goes to your desk and picks up tape or  a stapler without asking you like it’s his desk and not your

Read More

Jaya Shoma Khallee

Illustration by Deema Alawa Jaya Shoma Khallee* by Parivash Fahim Goff I give in to the sun baked sand, sink down against the smooth log

Read More

A Brutalizing Womanhood

Illustration by Deema Alawa A Brutalizing Womanhood by Theresa Famatigan angels whose en- gendered wars began eons before they advanced feet in the womb, on

Read More