Evangeline Delgado
Canals
You said,
“Chester bought.”
I said,
“Just about.”
I heard,
“He’s alive!”
You heard
He’s alive?
You bought
A wrench?
I bought
A winch.
To wrench
His ears.
To winch
His head.
Chester just
About died.
Chester said
He died.
I’ve got
Ear wax.
Here’s
The ax.
Evangeline Delgado currently attends Barnard College at Columbia University where she is pursuing a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Urban Childhood Education. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Department at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA where she served as a founding editor of The Blue Pencil Online and managing editor for
The Annual Elizabeth Bishop Prizes. She attended The New England Young Writer’s Conference at Bread Loaf School of English, and her writing has been recognized by Boston Globe’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year, and the Massachusetts Young Playwrights Program.
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You said,
“Chester bought.”
I said,
“Just about.”
I heard,
“He’s alive!”
You heard
He’s alive?
You bought
A wrench?
I bought
A winch.
To wrench
His ears.
To winch
His head.
Chester just
About died.
Chester said
He died.
I’ve got
Ear wax.
Here’s
The ax.
Evangeline Delgado currently attends Barnard College at Columbia University where she is pursuing a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Urban Childhood Education. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Department at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA where she served as a founding editor of The Blue Pencil Online and managing editor for
The Annual Elizabeth Bishop Prizes. She attended The New England Young Writer’s Conference at Bread Loaf School of English, and her writing has been recognized by Boston Globe’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year, and the Massachusetts Young Playwrights Program.
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