Poetry by Sarai Nichole

Ryan Vaarsi CC






If You Knew Where to Look

Faces I’ve seen addiction masked behind; melatonin\\last month’s rent//between her

thighs\\take-out boxes\\red bull//sweat\\five weeks of laundry\\stretched pinky nails\\twenty-six

missed calls//wanted\\lovers//cigarette butts\\after-hours clinics//the bathroom of the Tim

Hortons on Yonge\\ celebrations of life//golf//third drawer down a student

desk//flowerpots\\curbs//birthmarks\\heaven//Benadryl\\sunglasses//pinky promises\\
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//hand-me-downs\\

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Sarai Nichole is a Black Canadian poet and writer from Ontario. Her work explores grief, power, intimacy, and the pressures of becoming. She is the author of the Amazon-bestselling poetry collection, Excerpts From My Journal. When she isn’t writing, she is usually observing, revising, or drinking tea she forgot she made.



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