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by Lajward Zahra
Young Women’s STEAM Research & Preparatory Academy
kore
This piece is inspired by the myth of Kore (or Persephone.) Not Hades and Kore, or Demeter and Kore. Kore eating the pomegranate seeds that doom her to six months in the underworld is the first and only time she makes a decision out of her own volition in the myth. She, literally and metaphorically, takes matters into her own hands. By doing so, she becomes Queen of the Underworld and of all the wealth found beneath the Earth.
Lajward Zahra
Lajward Zahra is a seventeen-year-old writer. She draws on her experiences as an immigrant woman of color and about the turbulence of being a teenager in a world that feels like its ending. Her poems have been named honorable mention for the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest and have won the Annual El Paso Public Library Poetry Contest. She has been published in print and online by Wingless Dreamer and Celebrating Poetry. In her spare time, she likes to take pictures, garden, and make pesto.