The sun is nice today.
Soothing rays, raspy cartwheels whisker
Hit the pavement, purring sound of
TVs, engines, view of suede green leaves
Across Balboa, sweet in the belly of
The gradually fading 6pm day
Into night.
Glowing struggle, stiff weak cobweb,
Perme-funk, strands silk, violent
And swaying.
     Disaster. Waiting to happen
I listen to Chinkaka Hodge,
Talks of her mother adoring 8 Mile,
Lose yourself
In order to find something different.
Lose whatever “you” you think is you,
And find self.

Darcy Allred is an MFA graduate and teaching assistant. Darcy published a series of radio DJ profiles at a Bay Area station called BFF.fm. Darcy is passionate about writing, education, social justice, and art’s power to make us feel we fit in somewhere together during uncertain, fraught spaces. Darcy resides in Joplin, Missouri and will relocate to Illinois to begin a PhD candidacy in English.