Teen Ink Magazine,
September 2002 :
Poetry Articles
Cafe I would like to find a job where people would accept me on the spot- give me money, enjoy my presence. Continue...
Forgotten Garden Lost and scattered memories hang upon the twisted wire fence with ivy-coveredwalls and broken rose stems covering the crumbling stone benchthat rests near a wheat-infested garden where the nightshadegrows amidst the yarrow and the morning glories are now closed. Continue...
Scrapbook It's the little things that keep coming back in the middle of the night as myeyelids push down and I begin to dissolve into sleep -
Thejuice that poured down her chin as she laughed inmango. Continue...
The Sky Each cloud a new canvas The changing weather, like a paintbrush Each windsmearing paint On the bright blue background The sun is the paint Addingvibrancy and contrast The sky The ever-changing picture
Treat Yourself Tonight was spent yelling Out loud and at myself Out loud it was mostly at you withyour domineering authority And obsessive meddling Later when nobodycared to poke their head inside my door and impossibly intrude I toremyself apart piece by piece Knowing ... Continue...
Untitled And then there was the time When air floated gently And the trees Playedtricks on the sky, Sending the last lingering raindrops To mingle on thewooden park bench below. And we sat in the damp, Staring at theskylake And the small ship or star radiating in the distance. Continue...
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