Cicely Grace Williams 2026-01-01 Cicely Grace Williams 2026-01-01

Dad, won’t you come see me in the city?

…

And I’d like you to meet him, yes.

It’s very evolved of you, that you trust my judgment, I guess.

I’m not asking for a blessing, it’s just that, well— it’s just that

you’re hard to explain.

Cicely Grace Williams 2025-09-01 Cicely Grace Williams 2025-09-01

ENFANTS DU FUTUR

do the children know they were

born right on time for it, unlucky inheritants

of a hurt world?

Cicely Grace Williams 2024-11-15 Cicely Grace Williams 2024-11-15

HAVE YOU SEEN PRECIOUS?

… Precious was last seen

in October. It is now April, the season for tending,

and I’ve decided to deal with myself.

Cicely Grace Williams 2024-11-07 Cicely Grace Williams 2024-11-07

There is no neutral way to say I was fourteen

And sometimes I'd tell my mom

I had to stay late. And I'd sit cross legged
in the back of an older boy's pick up truck.

Cicely Grace Williams 2024-05-01 Cicely Grace Williams 2024-05-01

Buying a Pregnancy Test in October or Schrodinger’s Fetus

I haven’t been feeling all that different but I can’t remember when I last bled. And I have been restless, melancholic, short, but perhaps that’s the rain. A month ago a man pointed at my belly and asked, Do you have a baby? Do you have a baby in there?