Izzy Lostalgia; “Flurry”

Artist Feature: Izzy Lostalgia / Writing / Class of 2026

By Madison Alexander

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”Flurry” by Izzy Lostalgia

From the tip of your fingers to the length of your spine,

feel the sting of abandonment. Feel the darkness in the back of your eyes

Flood into your thighs. Sink into the snow, if you suffer here long enough you'll stop feeling it

Watch the flurries go past you, your dark blue eyes look

Back and fourth

And back and fourth

Eyelashes caught in the frost, the rest of your body soon to join them

Deeper deeper sink deeper

Get stuck, get lost

Make sure no one sees you, go invisible, go white

Crumble and forget, let the flurry take you away

Sink into the snow

Dark the only thing seen is the neon lights

From the corner store, the faint sound of the door bell echoing in the back of your head

You know you'll feel as cold as snowflake once you stand up

So you choose to flutter your eyelashes shut for the last time

Let the flurry take over

And

Sink

Into

The

Flurry.

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Izzy Lostaglia is a current sophomore at St. Mary’s Academy whose poem “Flurry” was published in the 2022-2023 edition of Escribe Maria. She notes, “This piece was something I was working on in the winter before Escribe was published. It’s meant to awaken a sense of nostalgia for cold winter storms in the city while at the same time explain the sense of loneliness that comes with the winter season.” She says her creative process “really isn’t a process at all, when I’m feeling intense emotions or am going through something big my first instinct is to write about it. Which is very helpful for the kind of poetry I like making, and is perfect for allowing my emotions to transfer to my words so that the reader can feel what I’m feeling weather it’s sadness, anger or love. My least favorite part of writing is probably the fear of oversharing my emotions but when that fear happens I tend to remind myself that someone who feels the things I’m feeling could be reading my poems and that puts me at ease.”