star

star

NH

15 years old

Posts

  • Essay

    By star

    summers before

    I haven’t been to upstate New York since I was ten years old and we drove away from our house there without looking back.

  • I hate the sunset tonight

    Why won't the sky explode in a burst of orange-yellow-red radiance, turning each moment golden? Or fade into lavender laced with blue and whisper-pink, the world muffled and soft around the edges?

  • One of Those Girls

    I can't shake the feeling

    That I'll never be one of them

    Girls with lives made of honey and laughter,

    Girls with someone who looks at them

    Like they're laced with something unknown and magical,

  • My Name/Your Name

    cover my eyes so i can see you better 

    my night shadow, cloaked in delicious mystery, 

    your hand, forbidden fruit, holding mine 

    under the waning light of a summer's day. 

    i wish 

  • at home on a winter's night

    The thick night cloaks everything and the snow follows suit

    a delicate dance, welcome

    after two years of rainy Decembers. 

    My room is cold even though

    the heat is blasting, so I sit

Loves

  • 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

  • Morning in Paris

    It’s morning in Paris, 

    and the city still sleeps, 

    though the sun has long risen 

    and the cat has long been stretched in the light 

    that washes over the quiet courtyard.