Sami Rojas
CONTACT:
Email: scrojas921@gmail.com
BIO:
Sami Rojas is a young, transfemme Spaniard who has been living in Wisconsin her whole life, being raised as someone who was never here nor there. Her writing has a strong focus on queer life, a habit of making nonsense of the world around her, and airs out complicated relationships like those she has with American culture, religion, and womanhood.
Poetry
CoinSpin
They call the way
of media portrayal
‘spin’
Coins spin—
Do you remember a time
when you spun coins on your desk
instead of spinning coins from
vending machines and supermarkets
saying ‘can I get a roll of spin, please?’
so your eyes could spin
as they watch laundry
spun by money
I was on the news once—
The footage they caught
showed a septum piercing
and I was being spun around it
looking into cameras
in every direction they were
spinning the lenses
as an adjustment for image
when I heard someone drop
a coin
Blue Is
Relief is blue
the color blue is
a common favorite
feeling is relief is
bruise-blue it’s
something beaten
in blue you
can find a lot
of emotion;
feeling blue,
i click the blue option
on the screen blasting blue light
into my not-so-blue eyes
because blue is
writing and blue is
reading and blue is
painter’s tape
on amateur art projects
with a tinge of prussian blue pastel
where blue is the wind
because blue is the sky and
blue is
a symbol of hope
a color of pride