The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Letters to Myself by Alexandra Mireanu

This selection, chosen by guest editor Sierra Farrare, is from L etters to Myself by Alexandra Mireanu.

What is difficult to express
will often possess
a special place in your heart
these roots in you
need water to flow through
if you wish to let them grow
there is a fear I’ve seen
between these sheets
of unfulfilled dreams
to which I want to speak
walk down the street
really look at everyone I meet
there’s love and kindness to be shared here
before the night falls
and the day reappears

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.