Red bulls with sickly thick sugary-sweet
Syrup at the all-ages show, you and me armed with
Plastic film canisters filled with cheap vodka from
Cheap plastic bottles, an emblem of St. Basil’s
Cathedral wears as we stray from it, burn the
Proof, our letters and our fingertips, sprouting wings and
Baptized in sludge, stuck together eternally.
A collage of
What my parents find
Cleaning out my childhood
Closet–I beg you
To alchemize me
Into something less simple.
Romy Rhoads Ewing (she/they) is a writer and photographer from Sacramento, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bullshit Lit, fifth wheel press, BRAWL, HAD, Querencia Press, Nowhere Girl Collective, Anti-Heroin Chic, Major 7th Magazine, MEMEZINE, persephone’s fruit, UC Davis’s Open Ceilings Magazine, and Genrepunk Magazine. Her debut chapbook, please stay, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. Romy, their work, and further information can be found online at www.romyrhoadsewing.xyz.
