Teen Tidbit 11/23/25: Miriam Alex

I recently graduated from Cornell in the spring and am now completing my Masters in Engineering at Cornell Tech. I'm hoping to focus on software engineering, a start-up, or personal writing projects in the future. While I haven't been submitting much lately, I had a poem published in Poet Lore recently.

Zombie Fiction

Know that here, our sheets

lay warm. Somewhere, a doctor

lights a candle and prays.

I remember how the cat licked

where you used to hold,

how my jaw clicked at collared

shirts on sale. I medicated

for heartburn when running

past the cellists, felt for cysts

at the scent of fresh rain.

I suspect some part of me died,

but no one can place it.

I still think of your body rising

from our bed, half-animate,

mumbling about embargos

and taxes and patience. When

I call for you by habit, your name

slips out a long, rotted note.

The cat whines at the sound.

What's left of you still

eats carelessly.