A Dream is Just a Wish

This piece is only available in the print issue of Belletrist magazine.

Rachel Li is a nursing student at Seattle University.

I’m tired of pretending to be someone who I can’t be and no one else is who they think they are

I’m struck dumb suddenly by this egg, this enormity.
This immense incomprehensible oval and its lovely silence.

endless gulping glugging bubbling tug
swallows the ocean into its maw