Tilt my chin to the skies and envision your skies: mostly gray, maybe cloudy, framed by the pine greens and you—
With your bright ass district colors among the earth tones and rainbow hair, marking the concrete like thunder rumbling clouds.
It makes me smile, it makes me smile.
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.
With a bruised thumb and index finger I draw a line—thin— in hopes that it will widen, between you and me. But it’s dotted, at