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The 2019 Handley Creative Writing Award
​
Cassie Wilson


When I Met Myself For the First Time

A staggered look between two
held-- then let go.

It was small fragments
a million shards of
glass splintered inside me.
Sunflower tattoo behind my right
shoulder for everyone to see but me.
A soft bullet shot from 
the hand of my first
lover caught by my last

Pink hair dyed three times
weight down a hundred pounds
it was mother asking "have you 
eaten today?"
It was reminding me why I must burn
fire from my body
the sound of a razor ripping skin
blood like sunshine
four years of never hearing 
that sound again 

It was a giant red brick building
it was resilience sculpted onto skin
it was remembrance
it was reminiscence
it was me choosing me
because I want to
it was the cookbook of love and hate
and regret and shame
and most importantly
​forgiveness.
Picture
Photo courtesy of Cassie Wilson, 2019.
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  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board