I was supposed to have been there for you, a specter
standing fringe-like in the pall. I am not alone
in this absence, yet I still long to be a part,
to be a...
Ariella Carmell is a third-year student of literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago. Previously, she has had prose and poetry published in Spry, Words Dance, Souvenir, Alexandria Quarterly, Cleaver Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and other places.