Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Asiya Wadud Amy Lowell and George Meredith

Amy Lowell and George Meredith perfectly frame this time of year

and--perhaps most surprisingly--getting older

of technology

Thematically the poems build on Burrows’s eccentric childhood in a vanished but vividly reimagined

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Asiya Wadud Amy Lowell and George MeredithA teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isnt always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesnt. Silence becomes Rubys refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mothers mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent,