Poetry by D. Deutsch

Daniella Deutsch is a 27 year old originally from Los Angeles, California. She migrated to New York as soon as she could, currently getting her Masters at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. She is also a proud preschool teacher at Beginnings Nursery School. Her poems have been published by online literary journals – such as Ink and Voices, LittleDeathLit, and 5×5 Literary Magazine. Her print publications include In Parentheses Literary Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, Wingless Dreamer, and Clockhouse Journal. all the things my mother never told me, her debut book of poetry, came out in December of 2020. Her second book, I Woke Up To Words Today, came out in March of 2022.

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in the shower on a hot May day

in the shower
on a hot May day, I
return to myself.

I sink outwards,
life pours inwards. I chant,
be where your feet are.

I fall into the pool of
acceptance. there is
nowhere else for me to lie.

standing on my toes and
straightening my back,
my hair drips almost to my waist.

could it be I am still growing
taller? I am twenty-seven. I
think of your face:

the dark freckle on your forehead,
your cheek, the other on your nose.
Orion’s belt, right before me.

springtime has beckoned olive
shaded breath. and when the

walls tumble down, I’ll write poetry about you.

the mirror of my wishes

I am losing coordinates on him. I have misplaced his figure on the map. the natural progression of entanglement. although I confess, it feels somewhat like a flicker of a funeral. and last night

you fell asleep holding my hand. clutching it with both a tightness and an ease. with gentle movement, I tested the grip: safe and unwavering. eyes shut

with your whole world alive inside. holding my heart through your palm, I breathe in the sentence of another’s shadow in the mirror of my wishes.

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