POEM — Updo

I bobby pinned your

bed

sleepover.

They tangle with her

hair

as she sleeps

beside you.

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Susannah Jordan earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte, where she served as Nonfiction Editorial Assistant for Qu, the school’s literary magazine. Her flash fiction and poetry have appeared in Apocrypha and Abstractions, The Story Shack, 50-Word Stories, and Eskimo Pie. Her artwork and photography have appeared in Short, Fast, and Deadly, Gravel, The Tishman Review, and Oxford Magazine.