Eden Julia Sugay

I promise you, Tomorrow

I give grace to gods and hum whispers to the winds:
                                                                                                        these years shattered me.
From moon to moon I rose, though I remember
the pauses between suns where I fell and                             lingered too long to admire my glisten beneath the wreck
 
I bent my spine and twisted by thighs to relearn
what a body could be before it was taken                              not once                      not twice
 
I bit my tongue and swallowed my fingers to block
my heart from slithering out of my throat                             ache                            after ache
 
I buried dead skins of people I used to be so often
my bones are polished pearls                                                    with no memory of the decade’s dusty excess
 
I give grace to gods and shout a promise to the seas:
                                                                                                          I choose me.

Biography

Eden Julia Sugay is a Poetry Editor for Apricity Press. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College and is working up the nerve to pursue her MFA while working in Marketing at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, CA.
 
Her writing highlights her voice as a queer woman of color and reflects on the constantly evolving navigation of identity and relationships. Eden is inspired by the sun and the pink-faced, glossy-eyed details of honesty (read: she is a Cancer sun-Cancer rising-Aries moon, and a huge advocate of crying). Her work Bible Study has appeared in The Walrus.
 
Poets and writers whom Eden possesses profound admiration for include Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Nayyirah Waheed, Alexander Chee, Roxanne Gay, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Ada Limón.
 
Find Eden on Twitter and Instagram @edensogay 

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