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The first morning I awoke under your roof, it was March, and I ventured into your garden for a stroll over installed stepping stone paths, towards cold, stony-faced statues to tend to flower beds in full splendor reclining like nudes in the sun while you, rigid, clothed, sat between busts of dead men over aContinue reading “Pushing Up Lilies”

talk to me in the tone that only i use tell me i’m like the penny in your change and that i’m worthless unless i change talk to me in that tone do it just like how i say i’m nothing more than the lumpy stone that keeps cracking in the driveway say it theContinue reading “say it like i do”

Leaf-like thoughts  flutter and fall as I forget  But to the soil they go  Enriching the ground  From which new trees, and leaves, will grow. Alan Mathew is a high school senior at PPCHS and an aspiring writer. Plagued with cluelessness and clarity in unequal measure, Alan continues his effort to find the shapes of important ideas throughContinue reading “Leaf-Like Thoughts”

Let my body run And my mind escape Travel to space Let it dance and shower in the sun’s harsh rays Let it be I’m pulled down to sit in a desk By a big tree With crowded branches that are so close to me No it won’t set me free  Helen Godoy is aContinue reading “Itching”