19 July, 2022
Sonnet I
To hold your breath for weeks, is to reverence
the ancestors who survived the middle
passage. And the ones whose souls were left in
19 July, 2022
To hold your breath for weeks, is to reverence
the ancestors who survived the middle
passage. And the ones whose souls were left in
Brittany Spires is an emerging poet whose work will appear in the upcoming issue of Mikrokosmos journal. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and five children. She is a graduate of Wichita State University where she earned a degree in Psychology, with minors in Creative Writing, Sociology and Women’s Studies, and received the Tilford Diversity Certificate.