If I could, I would pray, but God has no use for a girl like me. “Non mi tange.” During labor, my mother had an auditory hallucination that Dante was speaking to her. Dante the poet. He told her to name me Beatrice....
Another Beatrice
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Amelia Golia
Amelia Golia is a writer living in New York. Her work has been shortlisted for competitions in Ploughshares, The Masters Review, and Fractured Lit. She has written for Death + Taxes and The Magnolia Review. She works at a butcher shop.