Seji

Poems and short prose about air, hunger, and the small ache of being alive.

Writing

To Grow a Heart

So the person will keep falling, held softly by the humming sea, until the purple lights gather close and the darkness opens like a door— and somewhere beyond the black, they will find that a heart has begun to beat.

Read To Grow a Heart

About

Seji writes poems and short prose. The work follows small, ordinary troubles and enormous ones: a mosquito at night, a haze that crosses a sea, a heart that has not grown yet.

This page keeps her writing in one place. Read slowly, and out loud if you can.

Thank you for reading.