Poetry

Time Ticked by Neils Caspersen ...................................................................................................... 1

Countdown by Xandra Button ........................................................................................................ 3

Grandpa’s Lesson by Sammi Bilitz .................................................................................................. 4

Walleye by John Lorenzen .............................................................................................................. 5

Teenage Dream by Sophia Ferries-Rowe ........................................................................................ 7

The Fort by Reed Rouch .................................................................................................................. 8

The Voices of Punjab by Amol Kular ............................................................................................... 9

Leather Lessons by Semira Killebrew ............................................................................................ 11

Our Corner by Karena Dhamecha ................................................................................................. 12

Fireworks by Chad Smitson ........................................................................................................... 13

Broken Dolls by Kate Johnson ....................................................................................................... 15

The Irish Funeral by Lillian Cota .................................................................................................... 16

The Thief by Xandra Button .......................................................................................................... 18

Banishing Maleficent by Mimi Magee .......................................................................................... 20

Grasslands by Christina Kelley ...................................................................................................... 22

Spilled Milk Skies by Avalon Husain .............................................................................................. 23

Cracked Cement by Katie O’Donnell ............................................................................................. 25

The Truck by Julia Alessandri ........................................................................................................ 26