POETRY

9 AM Discovery

By Tia Credle
Credit: https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/memories

Open the album to see

your roots. Hover your petite fingers across
the beige page with the woman’s
face you inherited.

From full skirt
of exaggerated hips in black
and white, to shorts
with ultra-bright pink, red, purple

spiral. An itch for her
aura strengthens. Once,
you saw her softest smile. How

eerie is it to miss a stranger?

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Tia Credle

Tia Credle

United States of America

Tia Credle is a graduate of Salisbury University with a Bachelor's in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Tia has been writing stories and poems since the age of nine and has recently submitted her works to literacy magazines. Her poem, The Perfect Example of Agony was published in Polaris Magazine this year. She enjoys listening to music, watching YouTube videos, reading and writing. This year, she is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University. She dreams of being a published writer and an editor for a literary magazine.

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