Earlier this month, I was inspired over at Ethical ELA to find inspiration for a mirror poem. I used Ariana Brown’s “Dear White Girls in My Spanish Class” to interject stanzas throughout my own.
Tag: poetry
Breaking Up With Red: #SOLSC21
I am officially breaking up with red, and it feels like a crisis.
Slice of Life: Where I’m Going
While it seems a bit presumptuous to declare and decree where I’m going, some things are absolutely certain. As I survey the phases I know I am – or will be – embracing, I recognize that I move forward with hesitation. But I know I am not alone because I am loved and supported.
Nombre
Before he could take a breathe, you traded
his dignity for your neat
bow of normal and turned
my joy to dread.
