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Sophia Marie Giudici is a current English MA/PhD student at Catholic University, and an emerging poet and artist. She has been published in Latin@ Literatures, an online journal. Her first illustrated sonnet crown was published in October 2024 in Nexus, a journal on the Catholic intellectual tradition published by Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.
In my head I hear the songs that remain
When the music stops, and I’m all alone
Mumbling and bungling, I hum the refrain.
My favorite tunes are ones I can’t name
Their language native and yet not my own
In my head I hear the songs that remain.
My heart knows what my head could not retain—
Bomba bubbles from within, a great moan
Mumbling and bungling, I hum the refrain.
I fall asleep wrapped in comforting pain
And wake aching for the accented tone;
In my head I hear the songs that remain.
An exile, I call a home unattained
Crossing distance, music plays on my phone
Mumbling and bungling, I hum the refrain.
I know and don’t know the words, can’t explain
Aunque no tengo la comprensión
In my head I hear the songs that remain
Mumbling and bungling, I hum the refrain.
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