Vincent Torres was one of the participants of the Spring 2021 Publisher’s Club. The poem below is the final product of the prompt “Internal Change with Intention”. The next period for submission will be held this fall.

I’ve gotten a lot of flak about being a queer woman with two moms. Although it was never said out loud, my parents told me that people were okay with their queer identities, but the second they mentioned having kids, friends, and family had negative opinions.