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  Poppy Fields

  

  By raeTo, Evanston, IL

  darkness pauses and turns into this moment, where a nightmare is reality forever caught in a place between two worlds this horizon meets space, a daring fall you never could catch anyways. pull back the gun heavy in your hands and you hear it sigh an hourglass turned whispers li...
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  Poison Ivy

  

  By raeTo, Evanston, IL

  all these things, these things thunderstorms and lipstick cases sick days on the couch cigars, and sunscreen these things will be gone along with you and me the rules of the game will change, like sugar coated knives we are just one dimension in time a dark colored question we always say y...
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  Ballerina

  

  By raeTo, Evanston, IL

  electrocuted and the light flashes your skeleton is lit up by truth and I see what you are pressed across the lemon washed floor It's Midnight on a Monday and you are an oily river of turns with eyes like bicycles on a busy street Feet turned out, you really thought you forgot after all th...
• Nonfiction > Educator of the Year
  Megan McDermott, Science

  

  By raeTo, Evanston, IL

  When some people decide they want to be teachers, they go to college, get a degree, and find a job at a school. They prepare lesson plans, give out homework, and make up tests. But when they walk out of school, they leave being a teacher behind. They have families, chores to do, and bills to pay. To...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  La Belle au Bois dormant

  

  By raeTo, Evanston, IL

  In the dampness of summer heat we bounce on that trampoline in our own secret garden, where the hedges and weeds and sunflowers are overgrown look at us, we are beautiful we are young we are alive we are untouchable There are memories when you see time pass by and flow like syrup we dan...
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  Why

  

  By raeTo, evanston, IL

  i don't know what to write > >> and i dont know what to say > >> I tried to cling on to that bit of hope > > but things got in the way > >> > >> i can write about these notions > >> and i act like i really see > >> but the truth is that i'm clueless > >> what if it was me? > >> > >> the fa...
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  Drown

  

  By raeTo, evanston, IL

  I’m walking on this lonely road My soul is gone, I’m lost I see the other side of things Because that line I’ve crossed If you say I’ve broke your heart I’ve broke mine ten times more There is no lifeguard in the night I float away from shore The water is like an ea...
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  Hiroshima

  

  By raeTo, evanston, IL

  > I see my family close to me, > But they are far away > The fire is exploding > so I bend my head to pray > > the tears that are rolling down my cheeks > are not ones of fear > I say this but I can’t be brave > I know death is coming near > > So tell me please, I want to know...