Current
Issue
Volume 12.1
Alex Sarrigeorgiou
—
Summer, Finally
After all this is over, there will be
party after party after party.
The old, obvious question will rumble
distantly,
like late-night traffic on the avenue
of days, while we embrace
in some back room and fix
another drink.
Nothing is neat. Nothing,
or nearly nothing
settled, and everything far smaller
than remembered.
We long for people like us,
don’t we? Or for blue-green
flecks of light and urgent music?
After all this, we’ll fill the room
with raw material, return the dancing
to itself and to
each other. We’ll face
each consequence head on and call it
summer,
finally.
Alex Sarrigeorgiou is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City. Half Greek and half Romanian, Alex grew up in Athens, Greece and studied drama at Vassar College. Alex brings her love of poetry to her work as a filmmaker, telling lyrical stories about personal transformation and existential despair, with female and queer experiences at the center. Alex’s debut feature, In Transit, which she wrote and stars in alongside Jennifer Ehle and François Arnaud, directed by Jaclyn Bethany, is currently on the festival circuit (Edinburgh, Deauville, NewFest & more). Alex's poems have appeared in Red Tree Review, Bodega Magazine, Fugue, The Tishman Review, *82 Review, and Hypertrophic Literary, among others.
