Bio
Emma Sheppard (she/her) is an English professor, teacher educator, and writer living in Toronto, ON. She writes on issues of identity, grief, family, and more. Her work can be found forthcoming in Stonecoast Review, Soliloquies Anthology and The Bookends Review, and on Substack and Instagram at @emma.out.loud.
Emma Sheppard
Wait
When I was 7, it rained and
I stood under a gazebo and wondered
what would happen
if it never stopped.
Years later, I was talking
to a hundred-dollar-an-hour
kind face who knew how many
of my wonders were worries and
I stopped myself short
Wait
do you mean to tell me that we aren't
all standing under our own gazebos?
do you mean to tell me that some people just
keep walking?