June 15, 2025
Sarah Mills
Sarah Mills’s poems have appeared in RHINO, trampset, Jet Fuel Review, HAD, Up the Staircase, The Shore, Pithead Chapel, Beaver Mag, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Find her on Bluesky @sarahmillswrites.
I ask what you do when you can’t sleep. You say:
Sometimes, late at night, I let the radio listen to me.
The poem is alive when you are writing it, and every finished poem becomes a ghost as you move on to the next one. I let the poem take me by the hand—it’s an experienced guide. It knows more than I do about letting go.