Departure

by Julia Catalano 

I listen to the chime of jars shattering 
against the windows of a freight train to Barcelona 
carrying weathervanes and – 
scallion, 
it will make you beautiful, 
she said.

Julia Catalano is a junior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development majoring in Early Childhood Education & Special Education. Her favorite book is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.