Charlotte Pruett is an award-winning journalist, creative and writer. Originally from the east coast, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Journalism and now works in Australia as a copywriter. Her poetry has been published in peer-reviewed journal Latino Literatures, Etched Onyx Magazine, the Story Discovery Podcast, and more. She published her debut poetry collection, The Seamstress, in 2020.
monkey bars
monkey bars it’s lifting your feet as trains pass,holding your breath near graves—it’s hidingshivers as you angel in the snow. it’s filling your rain boots with puddles,water-logged Velcrotoo soggy to stick––it’s gum, decades-old,decayingunder desks. it’s crunching leavesonce they orange;their sound bites like brown-bagged lunch—it’s cartons of milk curdlingin heatwaves. it’s stuffing inch wormsin pocketsand forgettingby laundry day—it’s hanginghand-me-downsyou’re sureare shrinking. it was sitting on daddy’s suitcase,your …