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Teen Ink Magazine, October 2008 : Poetry Articles

A Collection of Weather by Madeline B., Wexford, PA There is going to be time to be webs, the starred weathervane, plenty of time to be bronze, or the machine that ruptures the picture into a puzzle, to be famine that coaxes angels ... Continue...	Barefoot by Alicia C., Millburn, NJ Sometimes I walk barefoot in my dreams. Dig my toes in the sands of my childhood. Run my fingers through the silk creases ... Continue...
Boreas Breath by Brett C., Hopatcong, NJ We know the truth, I know we do. It’s cold outside; the glass of our window is covered in florid ... Continue...	Daddy's Womb by Carl H., Staten Island, NY i asked my father if i could swim, and he said that i would drown. The Sea would imprison me – he said if my feet had left the ground. ... Continue...
Daydream by Caitlin C., Chicago, IL I wonder will our children have your brown skin or my blue eyes? ... Continue...	Evolution by Elizabeth C., Maitland, FL They tried to teach me about Australopithecines and the fossil record, Homo habilis and the Cro-Magnon man, the Leakeys and footprints in the ashes. It all slipped from my fingers like ... Continue...
Liar by Alison G., Kensington, CA in your mouth you fold your paper-thin words up like origami and grin when they take flight as paper cranes hope swelling in the beating of their fragile wings ... Continue...	Pressure in the Pocket by Brandon T., Thomson, GA The pocket is collapsing But no need to rush, The fans are going crazy And I wish they would hush. ... Continue...
Stonehenge by Maddie T., Salt Lake City, UT Someone long ago whispered life into this stone – rubbed their fingers in the hollow of your throat, sculpted the roll of your shoulders, pressed their thumbs beneath your miniature brow ... Continue...	Superhero by Julie W., Alta Loma, CA A superhero without tights would be half naked. An uncomfortable situation such as this could have been avoided had you, Mr. Superhero, not gotten dressed in the dark. Continue...
The Earth Sighs and Heaves by Melina P., Parma, OH The earth sighs and heaves under the filthy feet of children holding empty juice bottles in their hands, ... Continue...	Today by Corinne E., Kirkwood, MO Today, something was invented (so long in the making). I wrote on your arm, You smiled when you saw me, Pushing your hair out of your eyes, my heart leapt. And looking at your lips, I almost took my mask off ... Continue...
Wallflower Season by Becca D., Edmond, OK The Crack in the wall slithers and slides to the floor I lose myself in the foundation between me and the next room A crack just big enough for flitting insects ... Continue...	Winter by Kaily D., Aptos, CA Walking after school I am struck by the shape of this branch against the bleak sky shockingly stark and gray and unrepentant; Stabbing upwards ... Continue...
Wishing for Amnesia by Mona Daniella H., New York, NY Memories marred by the attempts to delete them, She doesn’t know what really happened anymore. The Incident becomes incidents become “it happens all the time.” Now all she knows Is that it happens all the time ... Continue...

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