Take This Transmission for Instance
In my very first lit class at FIU last year, I told fellow students I had never taken a lit class before. Someone asked me how I managed to get […]
Tag Archives: poetry
I look in the mirror.
My father left his body on February 17, and I keep asking myself, “Was it five years ago? I think it was five years ago.” I was standing in the […]
I was a Calusa once
By Rosa Sophia This poem was inspired by my visit to Fort Center and Fisheating Creek. What an incredible place. I know I was born here once. Bicycle wheels on […]
No matter where I go, Florida is my home
by Rosa Sophia Soar upward into gray skies, I cringe at searing light step onto the tarmac and breathe in city nights born to ice and snow, slipping head first […]
In Scranton
by Rosa Sophia, 2009 When you’re running don’t run to Scranton don’t trip and fall in reeking gutters don’t stop for gas or lose yourself you’ll have to face hunched-over […]
Still finding friends in graveyards: the poem
I wrote this poem in 2010, and it was the inspiration for my memoir of the same title. Rosa Sophia Hot cup of coffee on a cold morning. The small […]
In Florida
By Rosa Sophia There’s nothing quite so perfect as loneliness. Hold it in between your fingers and you feel nothingness; chilly, pliable, palpable emptiness, a cool night in a tropical […]