minding eggs
a line of hanging hooks
bent us into the dining hall
where we ate like birds
all girls minding eggs
a school project
for cracking up
blue girl
brown tray
beige egg
empty locker room
jumper stretched
over knees
navy wool
egg
unravelling
a girl
is a changing room
filled with lockers
Mel Joy, a practicing poet since 2023 has been lucky to find multiple homes for her work in online and print journals. Her work explores the shifting sands of identity in this cenozoic era. She hopes her debut collection will come to fruition before the end of this era.