By: Sasha Torchinsky
I only want the world to end
when i’m done with it.
Often i stare into the ocean;
o to be so fluid you can hold another’s shape
& stay the same thing.
This story is a horse beaten into a new name;
a king builds a palace of mirrors
& bankrupts his countrymen.
You can’t drink glass
without becoming something else.
Sure, everyone has trauma
& mine lives in my body
& it moves as i move
& it stares back at me.
Sasha Torchinsky is a queer Jewish writer & artist born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Sasha is inspired by James Baldwin, reality television, and freaks everywhere. Their work has appeared in Filling Station, Storm Cellar, and Sooth Swarm Journal.