EMERGING ARTISTS & WRITERS
MEGHANA MYSORE
JE SUIS LIBRE DE MON CORPS #2
when she was a child,
she used to draw pictures
of bodyless women,
stacked on the page
like books stacked
on a shelf. neat and clean, she’d say.
her mother would smile and ask her,
why don’t these women have bodies?
and she’d smile back
in her innocent way, and say
because they’re free
Meghana Mysore is a student at Lake Oswego High School. Her work has been published in YARN, Aerie International, Cuckoo Quarterly, Eunoia Review, VoiceCatcher, Stepping Stones, The Writers' Slate, Crashtest, and Canvas Lit and she is the recipient of several Gold Keys from Scholastic Writing and an Honorable Mention from the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest.