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Disasters

By Greta Starling

The Notre Dame Cathedral burned down. My friend looks bored in his picture with it and I will never be able to take a better one. The Twin Towers exploded before I was born. The Appalachians are shrinking and the ice caps are melting and Everest grows higher and less attainable every day and I want to travel the world but what if, when I’m ready, it’s not there anymore?

 

a fire slowly

swallows my religion while

people are singing

 

 

Greta Starling is a teenage writer. She enjoys reading and writing; some of her favorite books are by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli. Her favorite poets are William Shakespeare and Natasha Tretheway. Follow her on Instagram at @greta_writes.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Summer Poems/July 2019

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