DECEMBER 2025: Una Zelić (micro feature)

Artists from Maryland is proud to announce the final microchapbook in our inaugural digital publishing run! This collection comes from Una Zelić. Check out How to Heal A Scar here (it's free to download!): https://artists-from-maryland.itch.io/how-to-heal-a-scar-by-una-zelic

Una Zelić is a poet from Baltimore, Maryland. She has loved to read and write since she first learned to, and she began submitting to journals and contests in 7th grade. When she’s not working on her writing, she loves going on long walks and listening to music.

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"Language Barrier" by Una Zelić, from How to Heal A Scar

My Spanish profesora teaches me to speak 
the Spanish language she told me
I would master I would get a
five-out-of-five with the control of 

syntax I have none in
my home language I fail
to pitch deep enough in my throat
for my deaf didi to hear me

telling him I cannot eat anymore
of my words for exact portions
of which I have deprived myself learning
the language of yearning to be less

than what I have ever been when
I learned the language of scales  
lines and dots on a page blowing
all those miles away and between us

can be bridged with the 
language of hands in my hair
when I had the idea that 
I was a weed grown from the wall

over which I climb on mornings
where no how did you sleep 
could keep me from letting 
my words run so far away. 

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