Aurora Bones
Summer 2024 | Poetry
POV: Highschool
We were coughing
I mean masturbating
I mean cumming
I mean crying.
We broke a pot of crazy
& then we were laughing,
hysterical & totally helpless.
…It’s the full moon.
That’s why I couldn’t sleep.
4 walls & a window.
The blood-moon bleeding its light all over my face.
That’s why I ride this ferris wheel now alone.
Smoking weed helps me to care less
(about my family).
….because there are things we can forgive,
& things we should never have to.
It’s only the crisis of caterpillars, after all.
It’s only the crisis of the average American:
that everlasting
red white & blue
wound.
Aurora Bones has had her work published in Another Chicago Magazine, Anti-heroin Chic, and 2River, among others. Her first poetry manuscript was recently a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is eternally curious about the relationship between the internal and external worlds. These days she spends much of her time teaching English at University, writing poetry, and reading fantasy novels. She also enjoys planting sunflowers, and often spends her evenings catching fireflies and then letting them go.