By Charlotte Amelia Poe
for nineteen summers long, time has been generous with you
early evening glow, and you are golden in all that i know
revel in soft smiles, the gentlest of laughs, the way you light up
and, oh, when i tell you that i love you and i mean it –
look at the way you shine for me, sunlit boy, moonbeam boy, starsparkle boy.
Charlotte Amelia Poe (they/them) is an autistic nonbinary author from England. Their first book, How To Be Autistic, was published in 2019. Their debut novel, The Language Of Dead Flowers, was published in September 2022. Their second novel, Ghost Towns, was self published in 2023. Their second memoir, (currently untitled), will be published in 2024.
Hot Pot Magazine 