ayushi_swami

ayushi_swami

CA

17 years old

Posts

  • lost packages

    her mail and packages

    stacked up

    like she’s gone on vacation

    like she’ll be back to pick it up

    i bet if the postman knew

    that the house is forever empty

    he would throw it away

    like it meant nothing

  • my hair

    my hair falls like clumps of tears

    ready to be set free,

    like chains held over my head.

    i tied my hair into knots

    of familial expectations,

    the knot’s been untied,

    and the cage has opened

Loves

  • Curl Cream

    I have been told

    To put curl cream in my hair

    Upside down, eyes 

    Straining against the ceiling light,

    Curls straining toward the tile floor,

    Bunching.

    I will smell