Brown arteries stem
against a still gray backdrop
and I wait, wide-eyed.
Brown arteries stem
against a still gray backdrop
and I wait, wide-eyed.
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.




A break in a routine and I am jostled like the snow in a snow globe, tiny particles scatter apart, it’s

I.
Minutes
into that first class –
two and a half full
decades since she’s done
anything like this –
she has to admit
there is a kind of poetry:
the manipulation of numbers,
a focused search
for the pattern
that will represent it
all.
One rainy evening, after a hip-hop class, I boldly asked to my then artistic director her opinion of my ability. For ten months, I had
Begin: again and again and again you can sit me down and point your scrawny finger at me, judge me, pierce holes of doubt on