This selection, chosen by guest editor Sarah Clark, is from I could die today and live again by Summer Farah (Game Over Books 2023).
Ode to the Snot-Bubble Child on Outset Island
for noelle
There is mucus bubbling
at the base of your nose.
You scream when I clean your face.
We have to walk
before we can run.
Know your legs first,
then sprint.
And yet, you sprint,
And so, I follow.
Who can blame you?
Your body is yours, and has only been around for so long.
Who is to say
this is not just part of growing up?
There is so much that
they will try to take from you.
Today, we let boogers be the worst.
Dear one. Your face is meant to be clean.
Your water is meant to be clear.
Your future is meant to be yours.
I am prepared to brave the forest
for you.
Wait for me.
Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. Her chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024) explores a childhood corrupted by empire, inspired by The Legend of Zelda. Summer is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut full-length collection, The Hungering Years, is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
Sarah Clark is a mad crip genderfuck two-spirit enrolled Nanticoke editor, writer, and cultural consultant. They are Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor at ANMLY, Editor-in-Chief at ALOCASIA: a journal of queer plant-based writing, and Editor-in-Chief at beestung. They are an editor on the Bettering American Poetry series, and a current Board member and Assistant Editor at Sundress Publications. They have edited folios for publications including the GLITTERBRAIN folio and a folio on Indigenous & Decolonial Futures & Futurisms at ANMLY. Sarah freelances, and has worked with a number of literary and arts publications and organizations, including the Best of the Net anthology, contemptorary, Curious Specimens, #PoetsResist at Glass Poetry, Apogee Journal, Blackbird, the Paris Review, and elsewhere.
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