Morgan Laidler
Third-Wheeling
A pink rosary hung above the dash, doe-eyed
As it crawls with us to the backseat.
I closed my eyes to avoid its gaze,
Burning with the whisper of confessions
We repented in the car's steam
As he touched me, and I him
In a way that I knew should've hurt,
Should've made the steam black in suffocating smoke,
Should've branded red upon my fluttering chest,
Should've made me wonder which of us was sighing.
Bio
Morgan Laidler is a junior at Boston College studying Secondary Education, English, and Creative Writing, though she is currently studying abroad at the University of Oxford. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and then moved to Parkland, Florida, where she began writing poetry and prose. She has been published in The Laughing Medusa, Stylus, The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Crossroads Review, Mouthful of Salt, and Girls Right The World. She can be contacted at morgan6790@gmail.com