Remember to write,
you are a writer
no matter what they say,
Remember to create,
you are a an artist
ignore, avoid, cleanse yourself of the inconsistent threads, whispers of
you aren’t and you can’t
Just do
today, now,
tomorrow, then
between the must do’s and should do’s
fill the space and liberate
your insides
create
for it is your fate
to be tied to your pen
in this perfect den.
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.
Fire limned with resentment, eating up the air until I choke— this is my anger, gaslit, bewildered. No longer able to tell who should be
grief that tastes of absent ice cream bars at the airport,
what is a welcome back to a hometown without a beloved tradition?
a perfectly sweet candy,
gummy to the mouth,
but sticking to the teeth.
konjac eaten too quickly can catch and choke.
gulp it down so that you can save yourself,