Jessica Sommerfeldt recently completed her degree in history and creative writing at SUNY New Paltz. Her work has previously appeared in Chronogram Magazine and Stonesthrow Review.
Daylight
When daylight first seeps between
The faded white blinds
I rise like a sun
boundless in joy and energy and
for these few moments I revel in
this taste of invincibility
even while deep down I know
that by the time the clock strikes noon
I’ll have fallen back asleep
Reflections
Why must everything hurt,
I asked
She chuckled,
The world is nothing but pain, child
Only then did I realize
I was speaking to a mirror