This selection, chosen by guest editor Sierra Farrare, is from Letters to Myself by Alexandra Mireanu.
Love yourself a little wilder
than you love anyone else
goodness knows
you deserve it
Alexandra Mireanu self-published her poetry collection Letters to Myself in 2021. She is currently pursuing a Certificate in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, where she participates in open mics and a creative non-fiction writing group. Alexandra enjoys supporting writers through poetry editing and self-publishing. She is writing her debut memoir, and exploring avant-garde poetry for her next collection.
Sierra Farrare is a short fiction writer from Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to a limited self-published run of her collection, Friday Night Hand Grenade, you can also find her work featured in Pretty Owl Poetry and University of Baltimore’s Welter. 
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