Reid@YWP

Reid@YWP

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  • Penthouse Party

    There's a party in the penthouse

    where people come and go

    admission is free and based on nothing

    and if you go once, you'll never truly leave.

     

    It's not hard to get in, but you won't be invited

  • Quiet Expectations

    They won’t teach me how to be a woman— 
    But they’ll notice when I’m not. 
    Say I should smile more, try harder, 
    Be brighter, quieter, 
    Less me, more what they forgot

  • Change O’Clock

    lately i miss owls

    the mountains grumble and grow, pushing up around pumpkin shards and lost dreams

    who i want to be

    who i’m becoming

    i feel like a dusty yellow pear

  • my next trick

    it won't be flashy, showy, or

    even remotely special to the untrained eye

    but those who've suffered the burden of 

    knowing me will understand why

    my next trick is magical.

    from the seventh grader who

  • Rain Running

    My watch did not enjoy my run in the rain.

    This morning before the other humans had stirred,

    I woke to the ringing of an alarm that was not my own,

    and saw the irresistible rain.

    Now my watch doesn't tell the date.