‘Angel Peaches Baby Honey Sweetie Pie Sugar’
— Reneé Bibby
Meghan Phillips’s prose poem ‘Angel Peaches Baby Honey Sweetie Pie Sugar’ hits you right in the gut. Phillips captures the frantic, stymied energy of young girls burgeoning into women. Another piece apt for the new year, an age-old narrative about transition; the terror and joy of seeking something new—tuning into the vibrations of danger and potential for greatness in the world. There’s hurt and heartbreak ahead for them, but as they are frozen in Phillips’s poem, they are timeless teens. They’re all of us willing to do anything to become the next thing we’re meant to be.