In one breath, she pressed
her past and present flat between the pages of a seedling desire to stand steady on the balance beam of her thoughts—
In one breath, she pressed
her thoughts flat between the pages of a deep den of yearning to take action, flip the switch
and step into her full self; no more flattened between the pages of her thoughts and desires; standing instead, atop a crest, reaching out in every direction.
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.
Begin: again and again and again you can sit me down and point your scrawny finger at me, judge me, pierce holes of doubt on
I sit on the empty banks of the my island, edge of the cliffs, waves slamming into rock borders I’ve carved with my own blood
This past week I slammed my little 7th grade students with several back-to-back assessments. I watched helplessly forging forward as their anxiety levels grew each