Alessandra G.

Alessandra G.

MA

19 years old

Posts

  • 17

    Your Little Bear has sat in your closet since you were nine and 
    decided that you were too old to love it
    Its threads have gone loose, and its eyes have lost their shine, and you feel bad even though
    You have done nothing
  • Berceuse (Lullaby)

    It was he who fought for it to stay upstairs, disrupting the ‘nice’ furniture. Its left rocker had loosened, and its right rocker had been tied back with twine.

    It would go ka-thunk when
  • Sweet Mischief

    Growing up is being given things–
    Memories, most typically recounted by your mother as she finishes cooking dinner

    About how much you loved playing on the roadside,
    blackened-by-exhaust piles of snow when you were four
  • With Time I'll Heal

    So, she sat there, mouth-breathing for quite some time. All day, in fact. She couldn’t help it--she could still taste the cloying salt that lingered in the back of her throat.