Links
Of course I’ve severed./
And more quickly, I’ve burned,/
finding the gaps more easily filled/
than its connections appeased/
or learned./
The Tragic Implications of Digital Silence
By Shakira Andrea Sison If you hear silence, then you have been rejected a hundredfold. The person you desire has shown your glaring insignificance by
The Futility of Medium
Stop sanitizing your love, dulling its razor edges and insteadpresenting a safe sphere of promises you can’t keep. Don’t bore mewith talk of the universe
Sit With It
When it comes down to it/
I would like to sit with love,/
have tea with it and discuss/
the ethics of ball fields or/
the details of a full-body photo/
of a woman of power/
in the Times./
Attentiveness
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This
About
Shakira Sison writes essays, fiction, and poetry. She makes and breaks bread, grows what she can, builds what she can’t, and fixes everything else.