Reid@YWP

When the chaos of the day 

gets washed away  

and the serenity of night descends, 

I begin to wonder, as the stars ascend. 

Trying to put puzzle pieces together 

it has been raining for two days.

i wonder when it will end

this grand deluge

or perhaps it is the end?

Filled with the sweet rays of possibility, 

I celebrate the place I've found in this sun speckled spot. 

Alongside me 

those I've tied my soul to, 

unafraid, for once, of judgement. 

On September 2 of 2022, I packed three short sleeve shirts, two long sleeve shirts, and four pairs of pants into a backpack and left my house in Sharon, VT, for four months on an intensive expedition semester school: Kroka Expeditions’ L

The pool is open, did you not hear? 

There’s a banner in town advertising it. 

Summer hasn’t yet slipped from my fingertips. 

I almost want to cry 

Color winds its way through souls –  

plant stems, the lick of a warm breeze, snow, flames that flicker high, painted in 

red, the color of roses 

as well as blood,