Helen Vitoria

How Sylvia hurts herself

on a crosstown bus

with the bright dart shimmer

of some strangers eyes

locking into hers

a six foot high hue

of someone who looks like

someone she used to know

she bites into every bit

of muted pain that remains

far away, dead and

bare as winter

Helen Vitoria’s work can be found in many online and print journals: elimae, PANK, FRIGG Magazine, Dark Sky Magazine and others. She is the author of four chapbooks and a full length poetry collection. Her poems have been nominated for Best New Poets & the Pushcart Prize. She is the Founding Editor & Editor in Chief of THRUSH Poetry Journal & THRUSH Press. Find her here: LEXIS