frostbite in a chrysalis

she mindlessly presses her sneaker against my thigh. 

i quietly want her to step on my face 

when the wetness between my thighs floats from my underwear to her cheek

i turn around 

waiting for her 

in the fluorescence of this campus 

lives hundreds of crickets 

had a taste of sunlight 

then they were gone 

then I stayed

Ronit May is a twenty year old social work student at Ramapo College. Their work has been published in The Closed Eye Open’s Issue XI, The Blood Pudding, StreetLit, and more. Their second chapbook, A Sentence Is A Garden You Stumble Through (Hoping To Pick A Word So Beautiful), is a note on living queerly and delightfully and bipolar. It is currently available for purchase upon request.