“Still awake believing our silence might leave us,
desperately needing to make ourselves heard,
every girl told a story before parents came for us.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Slumber Party” by Sara Burge from Vol. 34:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch, and her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from Virginia Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, Pacifica Literary Review, River Styx, and elsewhere. She lives in Springfield, MO.