Toss it all in, stir
Whip, blend, scold, listen, spend time
Pour into a funnel
you
are
a filter
Spread calm love and breathe
kindness
you are the soft wrap of safe and right.
Toss it all in, stir
Whip, blend, scold, listen, spend time
Pour into a funnel
you
are
a filter
Spread calm love and breathe
kindness
you are the soft wrap of safe and right.
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.
It used to be maybe twenty, A mad rush to get to the microwave and then, bathroom Shuffle food in and maybe a brief second
Illustration by Emma Strauss A Private Affair by Sonia Chintha She swallows the words, they say, one large pill at a time; they explode inside
I saw inside my uterus today: A tiny black, empty cavity strong– like an upside down pyramid It stared back at me Showering me with
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