by Sarah Sorensen

She unspools green fingers that grow like a psychedelic smear. Her center is a roar of white flowers, pushed out, open, and asking. Pouty and sexual, but what stuns me: the shoot folding forward, strong and attached to nothing. The shoot, catching air and weaving. So unkempt, she shamed me.

Sarah Sorensen (she/her) MA, MLIS is a queer writer based in the Metro Detroit area. She’s honored to be named a 2025 Best Small Fictions author and runner-up in the 2025 RockPaperPoem Poetry Contest. Sarah’s poetry chapbook, Light Splits Down the Wolf’s Tooth is now available through Bottlecap Press.