august <\3

sensitive content: religious trauma

by Ray Rajwani

August is a poem about a girl but not really. It’s a confessional, cathartic stream of consciousness that explores the pain of coming of age and navigating what it means to Become. It exists as a way to conceptualize the spaces in between and the way identity is sometimes like a fighting an internal battle with yourself. August investigates liminal of who you are who you might become and the uncertainty that comes with it.

Ray Rajwani is a first year Media & Communication student. They enjoy queer literature, Bollywood, queer Bollywood and angsty poetry. Most of their writing is done on public transport after events that upend their life.

You can find them on Instagram at @ray.rajwani.

edited by Anna Bokan