You want to hold her. You want her to disappear. This is how you feel…
Aurora Masum-Javed is a poet, performer, and educator. She is currently completing her MFA in poetry at Cornell. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Jaggery, So to Speak, and Callaloo. She was recently a fellow at the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
You want to hold her. You want her to disappear. This is how you feel…