Self-Portrait: Bullet, Prayer, Teeth
“The world wants us to see this– / girl in the ground. Girl / in the gutter — lover, lamplight // sifting through gum trees.”
Isabella Jiang lives in New Jersey. Her writing appears in Cargoes, The Penn Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. In addition, her work has previously been recognized by The Poetry Society, the National YoungArts Foundation, Ohio Northern University, Hollins University, and The Growing Stage. She edits for Sandpiper and Opus.
“The world wants us to see this– / girl in the ground. Girl / in the gutter — lover, lamplight // sifting through gum trees.”