Anna Kolczynska (she/they) is a sapphic, disabled political organizer centered along the East Coast of the US. When she is not working or writing, she can be found making music or coding. As a bipolar autistic person in recovery, she has been known to say poetry has saved her. She hopes her work touches you at least half as much as her favorite works have touched her. Her work has previously been published here in Roi Fainéant Press.
Content Warning: mental health issues and mild, unconventional self harm
I step into the shower after days without sleep –
Thanks to the lovechild of anxiety and hypomania
That incessantly wails at all hours of the night.
As I step in, the water burns my skin…
