“Today I celebrate my only bangle
my one-hand applause
the gold leaf on my family tree”
Enjoy this audio recording of “My Only Bangle” by Rooja Mohassessy from Vol. 33:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Rooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator living in Northern California. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Poet Lore, California Fire and Water: An Anthology of Poems, Southern Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is presently an MFA student at Pacific University in Oregon. roojamohassessy.com.