Author Class Level
Junior
Author Bio
Alessandra Coke is a junior medical humanities and biology student at Nova Southeastern’s Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Farquhar Honors College. She has a strong passion for writing, especially poetry. Her works are primarily influenced from the songwriting of Adrianne Lenker & prose and scripts of Sarah Kane. The latter of which she first encountered through the honors course Pathography here at NSU. She looks forward to writing and submitting more poems to Digressions.
First Page
37
Last Page
37
Abstract
Author Statement
"This poem is about longing and yearning, specifically as a queer woman. In friendships between queer women, the lines between platonic and romantic partnership often get blurred and distorted. Specifically 'Saccharine' explores these complex feelings of guilt, loyalty, and love in an undefined relationship, where the affection is assumed to be unreciprocated."
Recommended Citation
Alvarez Coke, Alessandra
(2025)
"Saccharine,"
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal: Vol. 22, Article 38.
Available at:
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/digressions/vol22/iss1/38
