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# Mood Swings
- URL: https://www.merionwest.com/mood-swings/
- Published: 2026-06-04T15:20:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T22:23:46.000Z
- Description: Bianca Ambrosino
- Author: MW Editors
- Tags: Poetry, Arts

> A tear

> (drop)

> through my eye lands

> on the machinery of my cheek

> 

> And sparks shoot off of my crackling face

> 

> The mask distorts in unnatural twitch

> 

> A pole in my brain spins

> and spits ribbons of storm

> 

> as a

> giant

> flying carousel

> rises from the top of my head

> (the kind at the fair, with swings on chains)

> and I ride on each seat

> a l l a t o n c e

### Bianca Ambrosino is a poet from Richmond, Virginia.