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.
Each year it stares at me from the wall next to my desk. May 19-June 8: the state testing window I glance at it in
Me and you everything warm, oozing, always there love raw, layered—a labyrinth Of stories upon stories a brick wall, melding two separate lives into a