June
Navi Madrid
It all feels selfish but I’m allowed to be the shaking of my hands and the kneeling towards the sea A crush, not to be mistaken with love — that’s a two-way street No more thinking, no more of that tired, lifeless sultry look history played on repeat, not a storybook I remember voices well enough I hear them in my sleep but they’re always shouting at me Never meet your heroes You’ll come back with nothing I want to celebrate a tender lifelong summer but my darkest month is June
Dacoda Reyes is a multimedia illustrator pursuing a Baccalaureate in Secondary Art Education. She hopes to inspire adolescents to pursue disciplinary skills and explore themselves with different art mediums. Reyes’s artwork visualizes late girlhood and emotional solitude with vivid colors and fantasy elements. Aside from a teaching career, Reyes also wants to partake in book illustration.
Navi Madrid is a student at Phoenix College pursuing a degree in Creative Writing.
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