What Rough Beast | Covid-19 Edition | 04 23 20 | Sophia Falco

Sophia Falco
Longing to Time Travel

I wish I could hopscotch across
the upcoming months
without stepping
on the white lines,
but I wouldn’t
prevail—with each jump
my tears would blur
up the chalk.

Sophia Falco is the author of The Immortal Sunflower (UnCollected Press, 2020), winner of the Raw Art Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. She uses poetry to fight the stigma of bipolar disorder as one who has been seriously affected by the condition. Sophia is an undergraduate senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she will graduate in June 2020 with a BA in intensive literature with a creative concentration in poetry.

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