Sara Sage
Sara Sage has been published eighteen times, is the author of her own book, and winner of two poetry contests. Her earliest award came at seven years old. She graduated with a Bachelor's in English from Hollins University. She loves to discuss sobriety, mental health, trauma, and childhood. Her favorite types of media include experimental work and creative nonfiction.
Shower/Sacred Space
a. the shower is the purest place
that you conceptualize as a
young child/ you bathe with
a cousin, lather each others’
hair with walmart soap, smear
shaving cream into letters
across the walls, force special
bath-only barbies to play
scuba divers/ your grandfather
considerately pats you down
with costco towels
b. you nearly shatter your left
arm at ten / the doctors surround
your meager bones to your bicep
and your mother must shower you
every other day / the sheer shame
of her gracing your breast buds
I’m trying to be quick / you know
c. a fistful of your hair, your red
cheeks flat against the porcelain
an essential virgin still/ a shadow:
shh, stop whining. it’s fine.
d. during your trauma week, your
wife takes all the showers with
you/ she quietly washes the
teal dye from your hair/ she
speaks softly I know, we’re
almost done/ she tries her best
to reclaim your sacred hollow