star

star

NH

16 years old

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    Me

    I am the person
    who cowers in corners
    hides behind
    the what-ifs and could-have-beens
    because she is afraid.
    I am the person
    whose shout is merely a whisper,
    whose footsteps leave no imprint on the ground.
    I am the person
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    In the Woods

    Sunlight dances
    across the leaf-covered ground
    as we step into the woods
    tucked away behind my school.
    The trees,
    once stark and bare,
    now burst with brilliant green.
    A light breeze ruffles my hair,
    and I know
  • By star

    Calliope's Odyssey Chapter 1

    I walk through my garden in the chilly night air. Shivering, I look longingly back towards my house, wishing I could just grab a cardigan from my room and be done with it.
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    Mirror Self

    I look in the mirror,
    and I wonder
    who the person
    staring back
    truly is.
    I see myself,
    the self I've always known.
    Yet I wonder,
    is this really me?
    Is my inside-self
    separate from my
    outside-self,
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    Enough

    you're too young,
    they all say.
    their voices echo through hallways,
    creep into the tiniest
    crevices 
    of my brain.
    you're too young,
    you can't be anything,
    do anything.
    you're so young,
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    years

    My first year here
    in a small town in New Hampshire
    on the border of 
    a small town in Vermont
    was strange
    First of all,
    covid was
    raging
    around the world.
    We were in person all year
    we were lucky

Loves

  • Homestay in San Juan La Laguna

    As I’m writing this I’m lying in bed in Nuevo Horizonte. A small jungle town in the north of Guatemala where around 100 people live and work together. Recently (a day ago) we wrapped up our time in San Juan La Laguna with our homestay family’s.

  • sleepaway #1

    it rained the night of our arrival -

    big, whooshing gasps of whitewashed rain & thunder that

    shook heavy against the darkening skies. dinner went long.

    we only sang louder, deafening echoes beneath the storm as

  • Summer

    the air tastes like honey and promise 

    sticky with the scent of blooming jasmine 

    and freshly cut grass that crunches beneath bare feet 

    the sky drips blue 

    stretching wider every afternoon 

  • ASHES AND BIRTHDAY CANDLES

    your birthday was halo-lit nights and cigarettes in sugar cakes—

    melted icing smeared over the tips of flames snuffed out in the dark.

    you asked for a songbird, said your lungs were burnt with apocalypse dust