Stella Lei
Inventory of an Empty Nest
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stifled sky / worn shoes seeped with cold / peeling soles / key fumbling against the rust of its
lock / serrated edge grinding metal against metal against skin / tin biting into palm / teeth biting into tongue / bitter pennies / sour steel / empty glasses like toy soldiers, attentive to a signal that never comes / crushed herbs / ground salt / ceiling fan slicing air into cubes that float before they fall / creased letters / creased photos / faces fading into sepia grain / staticked platitudes filtering through the phone, scattering to the ground like coins / moths tessellating toward a porch light, singeing their wings on glass / a room, exhaling |
Biography
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Stella Lei is a teen writer from Pennsylvania whose work is published or forthcoming in Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She is an Editor in Chief for The Augment Review, she has two cats, and she tweets @stellalei04. You can find more of her work at https://stelleleiwrites.weebly.com/.
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