Recently, I [Leela] chatted with Mariya Kika about the process behind her poem “Vengeance,” published in The Bitchin’ Kitsch. This interview is part of “How I Wrote This,” a new series where I talk to poets about the process behind their writing.

How I Wrote This: An Interview With Mariya Kika

To those people who are well-fed and sheltered, those that never knew the pains of hunger nor the desperation of survival, perhaps the chance to change the world is a vast opportunity.

Inhibitory Hope, Cataclysmic Vengeance

Crosswalk Stares and Streetlight Kisses

Flying only has meaning in its defiance. 

​Hope is a Heavy Burden, Lay it on Me

He looks down, studies his arms, and finds them decorated with lacerated skin that hangs loosely. Just barely a part of himself still.

It is easy, then, to rip off a piece, to bind her with his tattered remains.

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