Yellow Arrow Vignette | BLAZE
May 2025
Catarina Broccolino
You’re not beside me today
on the long, hazy train to the city.
Canada is on fire again
& we have to act surprised every time
the world burns,
as if it isn’t engulfed by a constant flame,
if not physically,
intangibly,
in all the offices, in all the capitals,
where lit matches seem to fall with each heavy sigh.
I remember you telling me
there is nothing we can do,
but I’m just not sure if that’s true anymore.
Catarina Broccolino is a poet from Mount Airy, Maryland. Before being captured by poetry, she began her studies at Loyola University Maryland as a physics student. By her second year, her writing minor became her second major, and she was selected to be the coeditor-in-chief of Loyola’s literary magazine, Corridors. This fall, she will begin her second year in this position and her final year of university. Currently, she is delighting in a nomadic summer, temporarily residing in New York.
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