Caroline Morris is an emerging writer based in the Philadelphia…
I walk towards the gulls gathered on the damp sand,
Their little feet, too, teased by the ocean’s back-and-forth love.
They hear me in the darkness
And alight.
Shivering,
I watch their white bodies glide low across the black waves.
Caroline Morris is an emerging writer based in the Philadelphia suburbs and currently works as an editor. She received her B.A. in English literature with a concentration in writing at the Catholic University of America in 2022. Both her poetry and prose wrestle with the nature of femininity, internal and interpersonal relationships, and what it means to have a body. Morris has previously been published by Vermilion, Green Ink Poetry, Beaver Magazine, and the Penwood Review, with two honorable mentions for the O'Hagan Poetry Prize.