"Lost Sisters" by Fiona Hsu

Two poems by Renee Christopher

Bathroom Therapy Club 1

​black girl drink and burp
say excuse me then run
to the bathroom where a bunch
of drunk white girls fawn
over their hair eyes tits ass arms dresses hiked up to here
then over black girl hair next
say yas bitch to her after she pee
she wash her hands, notice
another white girl hand shaking as she swipe on Fenty glow
and crying
black girl dry ask her where her girls at
and white girl say
gone

Bathroom Therapy Club 9

-for everyone who’s looked over their shoulder in the dark

three girls go pee at once
they all come back as one
the same but changed
into lightning, into sharp beams
of joy, of bliss, and empty bladders

why do we go to the bathroom all at once
they ask,
isn’t it weird
they ask
why don’t you worry about your body,
we think,
why don’t you have to worry
about that like we do,
we think,
but we don’t ask

we know
how fast
it can happen
it being
a separation
from joy from bliss
a full stomach vs. an emptiness
vast
and all at once

we all go into a room together
become something else when casting
our spears: electric,
out to the world
to the other girls
and their bodies
—lost now

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Renee Christopher has an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in Fireside Fiction, Anathema Spec: Notes from the Margins, Noble Gas Quarterly, and GlitterShip. she can be found on twitter @reneesunok.

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​Fiona Hsu was born in February of 2001 in Orange County, California. She has won first place in Yorba Linda Women’s Club art competition in 2019 with recognition from Congress, Senate, and Assembly, and she is a National Silver Medalist of Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2019. Fiona is currently studying at UCLA as an undergraduate studio art major. Her works capture the aspects of beauty within woeful and melancholic definitions that narrate quaint and odd stories, in which she hopes her art serves as rusty mirrors for her audience—reflecting and reminding them of a quality and/or memory from the past.

Fiona’s works can be found on her website and her instagram page.