By: Sara Gilbert
TikTok says
only people with
ADHD un-focus
their eyes
at will.
My eyes ease,
bleary blue-light
spreads for several
seconds before
sharpening.
Blurriness embodies
me like thick-thin
hair, blue-green
irises, Latin
Our Father’s and
Chanukah prayers
next to Christmas
trees: Baruch atah
Adonai, Eloheinu
Melech ha-olam.
Recently I realized
“existential crisis”
is the same in
both English and
Yiddish just with a
different alphabet.
Sara Gilbert is a third year Ph.D. student in fiction at Oklahoma State University with a secondary emphasis in contemporary Irish literature. She has an MFA in Fiction from American College Dublin in Ireland, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her fiction has been featured in Havik, Jenny, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and the Santa Clara Review. Her work tends to focus on behavioral psychology and is based in places her own travels have taken her.