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The Tomorrow Project & Burlington City Hall Exhibit
Congratulations to the award-winning writers and artists whose work will be on display at Burlington City Hall from April 17 until May 31.
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Tomorrow Project Contest Details
The Tomorrow Project is about civic engagement, having a voice on the issues that matter, and finding ways to move forward with resilience and optimism.
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Special Issue: Teenager Contest
What does it mean to be a teenager in America in 2025?
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Loves
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Love, like Light, like a Rose
Love
Is like light
Is like a rose
Growing from the darkened depths
Of a blackened bramble
Climbing through the soil
With shadowed claws,
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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
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A Sort of Ode to Joy
I got home from work at nine o’clock and decided that I would go down, through the gate, across the creek–socks mushy all of a sudden in my Adidas sneakers–and into the meadow for a walk without stopping to see anyone.
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living room record player
I'm six on the living room floor -
the pink album the pink album I chant -
dad puts the Supremes on the record player, the jacket handed to me -
pink, with three of the most beautiful women I've ever seen -
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Kindness, Accidentally
I did not know kindness isn't always loud,
not the grand gestures, not the
throw-the-coat-over-a-puddle,
because sometimes
it is simply someone sitting on the ground -
a mirror to your face, a prickle to your nape
We all hold hands with murderous intent
tra
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the line between good and evil
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