Hello, my name is Taylor. Excuse my awkward greeting, but I'm never really good at them. Anyway, I didn't read your poem first here, I read it on the Missouri Youth Write 2011 pdf they sent us. I was a Gold Key winner, too, and I'm not sure if you were at the ceremony, but they would have only read your Gold piece, and not your Honorable Mention. When I was checking the pdf out today, however, I was pretty bored, and started searching random words in the 357 page monster like "lightning," and "all the same," and, well, "rainbow." So, that brought me to supernova and I was kind of blown away by it. I really wanted to compliment you on it (because, really, it gave me shivers), so on a whim I copy/pasted a few lines of into Google and voila! it brought me here. That was a rather long explanation just to compliment you for an excellent poem, but I got there in the end. Lovely writing.

Hi PenguinFeet,

I'm so sorry it took me so long to reply! But I want you to know how happy your review made me. =) I was already proud of this poem, but it makes me immeasurably happy to know that you liked it just that much.

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Sincerely,

Sarah

Dear Sarah,

I read your poem in the print magazine and I was enraptured. It's cut out and on my bedroom window now. Thank you so much.

I'm not sure what about the poem I like the most. the tone, for sure. the ending. The imagery. It's terribly good. I am so impressed.

Yes.