atypical: as if normalcy
trickled through this blood line;
see also inheritance.
anonymous: movement necessity;
shallow breathing.
anomaly: implies no other; implies
expectation; see also hybrid;
see also body.
abstract: rescind from
cosmology; dirt settle.
androgynous: pale head;
foggy face; delicate but
only partly.
address: a place or structure; numbered
existence; see also temporary.
abstinence: holy; pink; polite;
see also creationism.
atrophy: like bloodlines
wasting away in this
country; see also capital.
ambiguous: my tricky
definition; see also
humor; see also deflection.
agnostic: forbidden.
agitate: rubbed desert dry; festering
madness via morning news.
altruist: the claim of all the bodies
which we know; see also
falsity.
ambush: knock knock
knock on the brown door; see
also heartbreak.
ambitious: dream
scale; man work;
top floor building suite.
alien: mother, father;
other; category; hated; spit drops; screech.
amateur: with
each step, we trip along
the cracks; see also
learning curve.
adapt: sweat labor;
blood labor; see also smile.
amorous: staring at california
coast wavelets; sunlit
radials; a quiet coast.
Sarah Sophia Yanni’s writing has appeared in Maudlin House, DREGINALD, Full Stop, Sumou Mag, Metatron Press’ #MicroMeta Series, and others. She is the author of the chapbook ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press) and serves as Assistant Editor of The Quarterless Review. A finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest and Poetry Online’s 2021 Launch Prize, she works in Los Angeles, where she has always lived.