Sundays

sound soft and sweet
like syrup–
silver marching, a promenade of paper plates.
somewhere my spirit starts to stir.
my mother is spooning sugar in her coffee
when I remember that we are the loud ones.

Rosella Birgy is a rising junior at Coe College. Her creative work can be found or is forthcoming in Overheard Lit, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, The Coe Review, The Pearl, and The Claremont Review, among others. She is happy to call Minneapolis her home.