Navyaa’s poem “mother may i” appears in the latest issue of The Apprentice Writer (Volume 39), which will be released in early October. You can read the poem below. Congratulations, Navyaa!
mother may i eat the ice cream that you bought last year the day i’d been robbed because my piggy bank was missing the five dollars that you used to buy rocky road from last year so now it’s been sitting in the back of the fridge waiting for some love from you and ever since i took a bite from the warm and tender frozen treat i’ve been saving it because i didn’t know when you’d buy me more and i need to save me from the bad days but i’m all out and now you can’t buy me more p.s. there are sprinkles in the round yellow box next to the band aids