Prisca Afantchao is a first-generation Togolese-American poet from Connecticut. She has been published by Sad Girls Club Lit and Youth Speaks. Prisca was also the state champion of The National Endowment for the Arts’ first annual Poetry Ourselves competition.

YOUTH PORTFOLIO

All the Unyielding Things

By PRISCA AFANTCHAO

I just want to be a mitigator.
I just want to be a little something
to take the edge off.