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I haven’t been scandalized in months. I wish I could see your face when I tell you a very good secret. I wish I could smell your fake tan getting dressed in a locker room. I want to show up at your house unannounced and make your brother let me in. I want to buy you a sushi dinner and have a good cry. How better to remember the ferocity of our love than by breaking something together (say, a brown glass bottle on the bathroom floor)? Once I cursed you for peeing on me in the shower. Now I’m baking my own lemon birthday cake longing for the filth beneath your fingernails.
Sonia Feldman is a writer living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Washington University in St. Louis and then the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) at the University of Chicago, where she studied English literature and creative writing. She runs a poetry email newsletter, Sonia’s Poem of the Week, which reaches an audience of more than 1,500 readers every Friday. Her poetry has been published in Rattle, Juked, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Pembroke Magazine.
