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NH

15 years old

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  • Realities

    She pressed the cherry into my hand,

    Smiling, it didn’t mush,

    Didn’t leak red juice all over my summer-calloused palm

    Like fake blood, too bright to be the real thing.

  • Closer to spring

    Darkness falls quickly now,

    the feeble sky overpowered by the black pull of eternity.

    Snow turns to rain, rain turns to mud,

    and every month, I bleed and I cry.

    It's almost Christmas, but

  • My Heart Will Heal

    Your eyes are dark like midnight, filled with millions of tiny stars

    and I don't know what to say to you, what to do

    because when I see you,

    my

    heart 

    breaks,

    not in two but in so many scattered pieces,

  • Lose you to the night

    We talk as the twilight turns to dark ash, 

    sit out on the porch and catch fireflies in mason jars--

    only for a second, then let them fly.

    You tell me about friends I barely know, and I nod and smile at you,

  • The last poem I'll write about you

    Memories frozen in amber

    are dropped on my doorstep like a cruel present--

    your freckles and your smile and your green eyes like grass and summer leaves,

    that nickname nobody had ever called me

    before you,

Loves

  • Essay

    By wph

    I Am Someone Who

    I am someone who is waiting on a dock in the middle of the night. There is a gross, green electric light shining on me. There is something out in the waves. 

  • wait for it

    she says i’m warm

    yet i feel 

    cold

    distant

    i feel space,

    the seconds 

    and severed flesh

    that separates 

    me from myself.

    how can i be warm

    how can i be excited

  • stone in the soup

    It's late when I pull into this town. the square is lively as my car sputters stop feet away from vision.

    its a party. the people of the town running around and around and around, with carrots potatoes tomatoes everything the town has

  • Dreamers

    and they're all breathless 

    telling me of the doctors who defied odds and 

    the athletes who destroyed records and 

    the CEOs and chefs and 

    and what if, 

    yes I think they're cool and