no one is listening - Nina Fiona

i sat by a river or an ocean or a lake and i

whispered to the eels around my ankles

words of longing that could just as easily have been words

of sorrow i pressed

my feet into the moss or rocks or sand and i closed

my eyes

it made no difference eyes

opened

or closed

i saw

the same.

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Nina Fiona is a fiction and poetry writer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Emerson College in 2019 with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Fiona was raised in San Diego, California, and spent much of her childhood in Vienna, Austria. Because her life has been rooted in so many different places, location and sense of place play a significant role across her writing.