Nina Theiss Writing Portfolio

Published in Half and One, 2024

Great gamble of genes

A knife to the chest

Drove deeper each time

I’m less than my best

Fear fuels like a drug

Adrenaline rush

My past a stark flaw

I choose to airbrush

Heart pounds in my chest

Racing to the line

I hide what’s at stake

And straighten my spine

If not more I’m less

Than the low I’m from 

I want to not know

Who I have become