thirty on paper in truth, it's twenty it's all I have yours, ours, mine 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then-- twenty to eat, rest, talk-- reset right in the middle community for twenty I get to be me the whole me the part that curses and laughs boistrously connections twenty a day it's all I have, we have for 10 months twenty: perfection Do not disturb it's our twenty!
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.
Behind me, they await and I strain my neck trying to fit into the frame I shift back standing at an awkward angle, mouth a
For N’s final graduation lunch, we went to Penang (a Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown). Penang is this little gem in Chinatown that no one talks
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
brick by brick it builds on its own each year completely independent of me and my life oblivious, I carry on working, grading, planning, teaching,