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.
I long for them To frolic freely without a worry To come home at night without school work I long for them to play in
Illustration by Wendy Nogales Scream is the Heart’s Pound Prolonged by Rosa Parhizkar The sound of rockets hit my ears at a rooftop dinner table.
She sees the curves of her body from top to bottom. Some are pleasing, some annoying. Images of beauty scroll past her mirror, they reflect