brachial

spores bloom in my lungs
dots of yellow life

porous/fragmentary/molecualr

breath

spores into fungus into ferns into flowers

breathe

blossoms
rooting in my tongue

brachial stems/brachial roots

breathe out

Alyssa N. E. Jones is a 22-year old queer writer from Georgia. She recently graduated from Columbia University, with a double major of creative writing and evolutionary biology of the human species. Her paper "Do Non-Human Primates Have Culture?" was published in Columbia's student-run journal, Sapient. Her poetry often deals thematically with her race, sexuality, family, and upbringing. When not writing, she enjoys playing with her cat and going dancing with her friends.