Night Bell

Written By Farah Abouzeid

it has never been so dark

but my eyes adjust quickly

my tail propels me forward

in the shadow water

i miss my friends

more than i can take

my angels wear eyeliner

break things

steal from whole foods

howl at the moon

too many art parties

to fit in one weekend

our dreams and our drinks

spill all over

our carefully written notes

our secret diaries

the love letters we don’t send

some rest would do us good

but we are wild and we are hungry

we are clawing at the clocks

telling the same sad stories over and over

shouting them in each other’s faces

in our best dresses

we swear and we swear

to begin anew

we’re chasing ourselves

we’re also running

Farah Abouzeid

FARAH ABOUZEID (she/her) is a writer and teacher from Monterey, California. She studied Literature and Writing at UCSD, where her play Social Suicide, a dark comedy about an eighth-grade presidential election, was produced by the Undergraduate New Play Festival. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Cal Arts, where she worked as a teaching assistant in the School of Critical Studies. Her thesis project, a poetry collection titled Dreamphone, is inspired by the underworld journey of Persephone, depicted through a mystical transformation into a mermaid. Farah is currently based in Los Angeles, where she writes poetry and fiction and works as a birth doula and tarot reader.

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