Poetry
— Oh, I got a new snail. Wait! Wait! He is dead.
— A dog named Roo races through a yard in ecstatic motion, turning corners, leaping, and becoming pure joy before skidding to a stop.
— A beat trapped in the speaker's head both torments and defines them, pulling them through life's extremes while shaping their identity.
— A young child's rhythmic plea to a new cat, asking it to be their companion and dubbing it 'The Tuna Cat' with playful repetition.
— Let the trees embrace you, With their long and leafy arms, Their thick and trusty branches, Reach up like vines To a star speckled sky. The wildebeest are roaming,...
— A child catalogs what brings spring to different things — butterflies to flowers, waves to oceans — then finds their own spring in a kite against the sky.
— A young poet contemplates the Continental Divide, finding excitement in the engineering feat and the symbolic boundary between watersheds and oceans.
— A meditation on escaping into TV shows versus facing the messy reality of life, ending with the speaker choosing to walk into 'fresh, impure air.'
— A poem guides readers through a forest meditation where soil grasps, moss chains, and nature's spirits reveal themselves through sensory immersion.
— A student calculates how to spend the six minutes before online math class, watching pedestrians replace morning birds while time takes on new meaning.