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Neala Luna Bhagwansingh writes from Trinidad and Tobago and was shortlisted for the 2022 Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her poems and short stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, PREE, Small Axe, Acalabash Poetry Portfolio, and Susumba’s Bookbag, among other publications. She is a fellow of the Cropper Foundation Caribbean Writers’ Residential Workshop and the Drawing Room Project’s Writers’ Retreat. This poem is taken from Unstitching Silence, an anthology of fiction and poetry by Caribbean writers on gender-based violence published in Port of Spain in 2025 by Peekash Press, the imprint begun as a partnership between Peepal Tree Press and Akashic Books in 2014, now administered by the Bocas Lit Fest.