elementia
I Wonder Why...
By Camille ChristieI wonder why
when I look up to the sky
dark clouds roll by
and birds don’t fly, but die.
Iris: A Haiku
By Hana SpanglerSpring brings the iris
budding from the sodden ground
life’s color at last
Gone and Now I’m Free
By Hannah E. JenkinsThe hate that lived within
me, that inhabited my very core
Gone!
It has no home with me anymore
I’ve let it go
It no longer rules me
Guatemala
By Brooke StanleyBumping the van, our holey road twists
onto the dark side of each mountain,
drawing us into night and the nervousness
of a stranger at the wheel in an unfamiliar place.
The stars are swallowed, the moon gone