Xanadu
 

You walk all over me. Your feet pavemented through my soul. You don’t think about me. You just walk. What are you without me? Dirt. Soil....

Dad brings me outside one summer afternoon. The blazing hot sun burning me like my head is in the oven. I don’t know why I’m out here. My...

Alone, I prepared myself for my first concert in the fifth grade pulling my clothes out of the closet. My hands shaking, my stomach...

No really? What I say, every time my mom says, it is what it is. At Gold Medal Gymnastics, one of my last meets, I fell off the beam....

I became the tightly spun football out of Tom Brady’s hand, dropped and lost by the receiver. Applications due, essays due, and...

As I wake in the morning and observe my room with all its flaws I can see the light blue walls and reflection of the sun and wind as my...

Not like that, Dad said. You’re stepping with the wrong foot. You’re throwing with the wrong hand. You’re holding the ball incorrectly....

I love the dark I love how it unravels the moon, which still shines despite the sun’s absence I love opening my window and hearing the...

The Sky, after the sun sets. The Subaru’s interior, and dirty tires. The still movement of shadows. A shark in the Pacific, while you’re...

Joy is an empty seat next to you on an airplane. It shines and glimmers with the glare of the sun the smooth leather would be foolish to...