Jessica Sabo
Category 5
On the day of our final goodbye,
I became another former thing – former
ballerina, former beloved, former thing
now of no use. I discarded years of inner
fight and in its place stood futility. There
was a fear swallowed from childhood
and I had proven the bullies right.
Much in the same way, you and I were
born from a collective need larger than
ourselves. We were something to remember.
Something dependent. I feel that for years
there was no use for us, and yet we continued
to cling – a tattered kite in a never-ending storm;
strong threads with nothing to ground them.
Bio
Jessica Sabo is an LGBTQ+ poet and classically trained ballerina. Her poems have appeared in publications by Soundings East, Quarter Press, and Viewless Wings Press, among others, and her work is forthcoming with Black Spot Books. She is the author of a chapbook, A Body of Impulse, (dancing girl press & studio, 2021). A Virginian at heart, she currently lives in Nevada with her wife and senior rescue dogs.