seventeen​

Issue 7

i am seventeen & still think my stuffed animals have feelings—if i told you i envied the poor kids for their freedom would you judge me? highlighted hair, hollister hoodie & a hovering curfew; i am privilege with a manufacturing defect, built of stubborn brick (ignore my starving brain, its dopamine ghosts). i am seventeen & about to create my own freedom with abandon; i am seventeen & about to build my own prison with bottles; i am seventeen & years away from meeting myself again.

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AMANDA NICOLE CORBIN
has been published in magazines like Troublemaker Firestarter, Door is a Jar, Impossible Task, and the Notre Dame Review. Her first poetry micro-chapbook, they drink with the sun, is also forthcoming through Bottlecap Press. Her work focuses on alcoholism, recovery, and mental health. She’s currently in Columbus, Ohio writing, collecting dolls, and playing Magic the Gathering.​

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