Poetry

Creationisms / Yessica Klein

A crayon drawing of scribbled yellow with blue circles and green and purple zig zags

Image by Inga Munsinger Cotton via https///flic.kr/p/5znfyc

toucans 

make a strong case

for atheism

these Froot Loops 

& Guinness birds

are more cartoonish 

IRL

bills more than 

double 

their body size

echoing croaks & 

barks 

& growls

who drew 

them

a barefoot wild 

beast of a child

snotty

hopping around 

ruleless

her toolbox full 

of crayons

Yessica Klein is a Brazilian writer and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her writing has been featured widely online and in print, and she was Shortlisted for the 2021 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize. She currently works on That Poetry Thing, a newsletter about writers' desks and writing habits.