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NH

15 years old

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  • hummingbird girl

    She's hidden, cowering in the corner,

    as she waits, mouth open,

    words frozen on her lips.

    She does not speak.

    I mold my sadness into poetry and she watches me,

    amber eyes taking in everything and nothing.

  • Medicine

    The wood is lush and dappled with light, 

    the first April flowers poking out of the ground, snow

    melting under my bare feet. 

    The ache of you digs into my chest like a sharpened blade,

  • An audition

    when she sang, she sang a rhapsody

    tender words that arced across the room on golden strings

    like her un-brushed curls that flew in the wind

    from the open window behind her.

  • the last day of march

    Mud mingling with snow mingling with dirt,

    the remnants of red nail polish from 

    Valentine's Day,

    how has it lasted so long? 

    The sun a hot fiery ball over the cloud-speckled horizon,

  • Good news

    I don't want the cold hallways,

    their chill seeping underneath 

    my thin regulation gown and settling in my bones.

    I don't want the nurses,

    with their tight, sympathetic smiles

  • Us

    I cling to the rollicking waves of our tumultuous friendship before they slip from my grasp, white-knuckled fingers and tangled legs praying not to be tossed astray by the unforgiving current.

Loves

  • crawdad song

    you get a line & i'll get a pole

    honey - honey! july thickens, slows to a stop outside, get

    your rod and line, the ones that used to be your father's. get

    your heart from the closet and your coat from the floor,

  • 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