she is

[image description: Street art on a cracked cement wall, featuring a black-and-white little girl holding a paper bird and wearing a dress printed with books. Sourced from Unsplash.]

‘she is’ is a free verse poem about girlhood, growing up, and dealing with childhood trauma. It was featured in Baby Teeth Journal, a Wollongong-based digital arts journal, July 2019.

You can check out ‘she is’ via Baby Teeth Journal!

she is the little girl who twirls in      rainbow dresses

flecks of sky in her eyes  she chews on fairy bread daydreams

spits out singsong      hopes