April 2011
5 posts
Eliana
Eliana
by Kyla Alterman I sat on my black leather couch surrounded by strangers, my family, also strangers, and plates of cookies to distract restless hands, reckless mouths. And you came into the foyer. You were taller than your mother as it had been since 4th grade. And I couldn’t understand why you were here. Gramps was dead, but you didn’t know him, and hadn’t known me for four years. I thew...
Snow Day
Snow Day
by Kyla Alterman
Across the vast, white expanse covered in a thick blanket of snow-day snow a stinging howl carries fallen stardust that spirals into mock tornados to pelt our faces; the pink spreading from the tip of my nose, across my sinuses. The football game left the ground between our touchdown trees war torn. While you stare at what we left behind, I run into you with the...
Gone To Pieces
Gone To Pieces
by Kyla Alterman Everything has gone to pieces Tiny, sharp ones that I shouldn’t touch because I once got a piece in my hand and it burned, itched, and ached in my skin all at once Tear tracks stained my cheeks for too long despite myself; I hated the pain. There is now a hole in my door’s window pane like when a boy kicked through your bedroom door, scattering pieces. You gathered...
There Was A Woman
There Was A Woman
by Kyla Alterman There was a woman who looked up at the stars, and upon seeing them began to cry, “How did I ever get so small?” She brooded, then tried to call out to hear the Universe’s retort but her voice was lost— the air too thick, buzzing — the surrounding dark too absolute. “I barely exist, I barely exist” She put her thumb in her mouth and bit down, teeth...
Your Smile
Your Smile
by Kyla Alterman The day belonged to a fallen ice cream cone. The simple pleasure that tumbled leaving cookie dough to mingle with chips of dirt, rainbow sprinkles to scatter like carnival ants. And the girl who had tried so hard today to keep her eyes averted from the gray, blank sky couldn’t help thinking how she did even the simplest of things wrong as a passerby’s heel grazed her...