March 2022
— A speaker trapped beneath a blue night sky refuses to wait for morning and instead chooses to bring in the sun themselves.
— Bees are sunflowers’ summer. Waves are oceans’ summer. Daisies are gardens’ summer. I lay down on the sand. It is so warm. Touching my face, “You are my summer.”
— A boy shoots an arrow into the sky during a bow-making activity, gets it stuck in a tree, and learns to think before acting through elaborate attempts to retrieve it.
— A reader transforms into knights, princesses, and trolls while reading beneath a summer tree, until sleep overtakes imagination.
— A delphinium searches for spring, not realizing she herself embodies spring's arrival in this brief poem about self-recognition and seasonal awakening.
— On the first day of sixth grade, a studious boy partners with a new girl for a math competition, then awkwardly defends classmates from bullies.