• About
    Masthead
    Contact
  • Archives
    Issues
    Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Interviews
Ligeia Picture
Ligeia Desktop Picture
  • Submissions
  • Search

ten things I’m sorry for at different levels of severity in no particular order

By Emily Norton
Winter 2020 | Poetry

my landlord hearing us fucking/ i haven’t finished a book in months/ i don’t really want to go to

thanksgiving dinner/ i don’t really know my brother/ being a dyke/ killing my houseplants/

telling my therapist about you/ stepping on my cat’s paw/ sleeping late/ considering this a poem

Emily Norton is a 22-year-old poet and editor residing in Toronto. Her work centres themes of reclamation and honesty within lesbian identity and whatever hopeless romanticism comes up. You can read more of her work at patreon.com/emnortonwrites. Her Twitter is @_emnorton.


Other Works

Melismas

reviewed by Ashley Wagner

... Melismas is a collection of—and about—small victories ...

Read More

Yolanda

by Monique Quintana

... I find myself cursing my grandmother for the body that she gave me ...

Read More

LIGEIA

About

  • Masthead
  • Submissions

Archives

  • Issues
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Interviews

Follow

  • Twitter
  • Instagram

© 2022 LIGEIA Magazine. Designed by Sean Sam.