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Spells

Updated: Dec 8, 2023

I spent the whole night casting spells to bring you back just so I could send you away again.


BIO

Amanda Rocha is a practitioner of cosmic, green, and solitary witchcraft. She has been walking her own spiritual path for over a decade, and is passionate about empowering, educating, and connecting with other witches. She was instructed by Ilya Kaminsky (author of Deaf Republic) at SDSU in a contemporary poetry course. Amanda’s poems have been previously published in The Aztec Literary Review (Luna Llena, The Sound, 2015).







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