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STREETLAMP
by Shiloh Corcoran
A POEM FOR A KITTEN
by Ashlin Slanger
Oh, restless child,
just you wait.
For all you know is winter’s mild standing steady state
You spend your days sleepy,
dreaming of a field to play.
The house offers no space, and bleakly you run its halls of disarray.
But child you know not of what comes if you shall stay a little longer.
For with spring and her drums
beating, you may go outside and wander
Outside is foreign to you, child,
born in winter’s cold embrace.
With spring, you see, comes sun: unexiled. Let her warmth caress your face.
BRAINS
by Abi Shirley
ICE
by Braelyn Germaine
From the mountains a river shall run
And down to the sea make its way.
It carries a sparkle of sun,
A piece of white bone to the spray
It glimmers like frost in the morning,
The water this crystal becomes.
Too flippant it heeds not the warning;
To the heat in the south it succumbs.
SHADOWY HOLLOWS
by Brandon McDuffie
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