Sad Girl Poem
Sad Girl Poem
march — september, 2020
sleeping[1]
at noon: propranolol 20mg, sertraline 50mg, crying[4] / crying[5] / crying[6].
[[7]]
[separator type=”thin”]
[1] was the wrong june, even this heat / electric, stinging / bitter-scented — i want to specify the dream intrusions: whirling burrs, sunspots digging into eyes, no darkness in sight — mercury-drunk
[2] stranger than drowning: how the light shards into blades & the night is as wide as the ocean / a terrible
[3] impossible / smog-like and choking / stranger than the sky, drowning in blue —
[4] [how soft everything sharp
[5] how strange we become in the dark
[6] the air a memory of smoke]
[7] i, too, am prone to lightning / appearing when least wanted // girl/phenomenon/ghost. ∎
Words by Annie Fan. Art by Alan Sulaivany.
You may also like
The New Face of Resistance
In the last week of June 2019, Stormzy became the first Black British solo artist to headline Glasto
Telling with my eyes
This piece was originally written by the hugely influential Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa. Despite h
Lethe
On the second day you will not care for the news. Like a child you will play: tearing away the cross
