aly allen


I Know Sisyphus

You’ve got it all wrong
I don’t know whether they love
their stone or rolling it more
their stone
or rolling it more
they love
whether
I don’t
know you’ve got it
all wrong
I know the roll of Sisyphus’ stone
I know the sound it squeezes
from the hillside

Aly allen

Aly Allen is a trans writer and parent. Her writing focuses on family, trauma, and identity. Her chapbook "Approaching Valhalla" is available from Bottlecap press. Her recent words appear in Two Hawks Quarterly, New Note, and Consequence. She earned a BA creative writing from University of Houston and an MFA creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she now teaches composition. Her first full-length collection, Paying for Gas with Quarters, debuts this October from Middle West Press.