Day 1
Recovery now
Sleep wake talk pain sleep
Hey! Are you with me?
Stay, go, stay, stay please
Am I alone In this room?
Where is everyone?
I’m here, right here
Laughing crying staying
Next to you any day, night too
—white sleepover!
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.
Frazzled and under Pressure, the sharpest teacher Thrives: with enviable brilliance!
I wear my fingers out into the coldBare, pleading winter air to cool the stabs of heatTo calm the thin acid between my finger bones