Bloated tummies filled with air
Rumbled like distant thunder.
Pangs as sharp as knives,
Turned deeper and deeper
Like screws being drilled into wood.

Dear Daddy
I woke up last night and saw you in the kitchen drinking juice with Mommy, but Mommy said I should go back to bed right now because you were tired and you couldn’t talk. But you looked so different […]

She sat by the roadside head bent low.

At the sound of footsteps, her eager hand darts out.

She doesn’t raise her eyes.
Tightly curled knots form a tight cap
That snugly fits the dome of her head.

The […]