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Hurricanes of War

By Julia Anne Ulmer

Our world is a sea

From the oceans to the shore

Not of water

But of colors, textures, sounds, and war.

You look around to see the green waves of grass. And hold the

Smoothness of your pen as you sit at your desk; you hear the


There Once Was...

By Hope Gardner

There once was a girl from Kentucky,

she always won at games

but, all the same she had a pet gerbil

named “Unlucky.”


Wake

By Blaire Lauren Ginsburg

“My husband was not supposed to die young.”


The Soul of Night

By Catherine Strayhall

Night

It’s the time I have dark thoughts;

When my fears stalk me, and my demons mock me.

At night, my imagination runs wild,

Conjuring things that make me want to hide like a child.