Maya Wright

Joined March 2020

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Tyrone
In 2016 a sonogram couldn’t find a heartbeat and mine stopped Dr said I’d been carrying around a dead thing for over a month
By Maya Wright4 years ago in Poets
Chronology of Secrets Kept Close to My Chest
MIDDLE SCHOOL: Mommy, do you know how many fights I got into in middle school? To count I need more fingers than two fists can hold. I say it is for your honor. Like leaving the kids at school with scars is enough to keep them from snickering at your schizophrenia. It isn't, and it takes one too many suspensions for me to find that out. Schizophrenia and stupid are not synonyms! There is a boy in my class who uses the two interchangeably like that is enough for me to change how I see you. It isn't, and it takes one too many hits for him to get it through his head. Schizophrenia and stupid are not synonyms he knows that now, but Schizophrenia and embarrassment have been conjoined twins of torture in my life.
By Maya Wright4 years ago in Confessions
Reading is Fundamental
I have never in my twenty-seven years been interested in poetry, but somehow it has taken an interest in me over the last year. I don’t see how I haven’t been swept up in poetry sooner in my city poetry almost seems inescapable.
By Maya Wright5 years ago in Motivation