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.





Illustration by Scout Mayo My body is a temple of fool’s gold, ornamented with masterpieces of my children’s making, which are hastily taped or glue-stuck
From a distance I stand in mountain pose, channel the ground beneath me to center the particles that long to join the majority of tribes
I began eating independently at a very young age, I’m told. Even though half the food ended up on the floor, I still insisted, by