consider this— someday, the place we call skinned from within— does that frighten you? down the rosemary bushes the echoes of us in the drywall— no one will know this place like we do. Nooshin Ghanbari is a senior English and Plan II Honors major at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was recently awarded the 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Student Award in Arts and Humanities for excellence in poetry. When she isn’t writing angsty poems, Nooshin can be found singing her heart out in countless choirs on- and off-campus and camping out at the many great coffee shops that Austin has to offer. Her work has previously been published in print and online in the United States, England, and Wales.
transient
nothing is permanent.
home will be emptied
from the inside out—
filled with foreign heartbeats
and people who don’t know our names.
they will live a new history,
treading over ours and cutting
in the backyard. no one will know
the heartbreak stitched into the curtains—
the concrete and love
the foundation was built upon.About the Author
