Father
hammers the fence,
rust peeling off
thin as sandpaper.
Mother sharpens
all the pencils, my cat
licking each tip.
I awaken, still swollen
from the dream.
I skip to Julie Crimlia’s house
with a cooler of pork feet.
I enter
for a glass of sake,
rice remnants
stuck between my teeth.
Julie takes
a fallen eyelash
from my freckles.
It nests in her palm.
I close my eyes, I wish
to have a family, blow.
Sabrina is from New York and is the youngest global winner of the 2021 Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis Challenge. She spoke out against climate injustice and performed her poetry in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). She received the Civic Expression Award and nine national medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is a commended winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, first place winner of the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, recipient of the Poetry Society of Virginia’s Jenkins Prize, and a nominee for the 2021 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is recognized by the Adroit Prizes in Poetry and the Bennington College Young Writers Awards. Her work has been published in the Best Teen Writing, Raleigh Review, West Trestle Review, Counterclock, Blue Marble Review, among others. Her debut poetry chapbook Catalogue of Ripening is published by Stone Soup Magazine.