Phone said 2:45pm. This means school is out, scream and shout. In case future daughter/granddaughter is reading this, a few things to note: all students wear tiny gray uniform skirt, boxers poke underneath.
She hits my foot from under the table. First it’s a mistake, then she beams up at me and does it again, on purpose this time. We both laugh. “What’s funny?” they ask. “Nothing,” we say. Her giggles sound more like squeaks. These moments with Jade follow a formula.
"In the bathroom of a house party, Najah finds her best friend Cas hiding and tells him about her true feelings. It doesn’t exactly go how either of them expected."
"I jump the fence at the park, / following echoes to twist and fall back / down, down, to sink beneath the waves,
the sand, the snow closing over / eyes that don’t see, that aren’t here,"