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Dream Land

By Hanna Iruka Hall

The sky is the color of a rusty

crayon, the house a black box

with a triangle on top. In the attic,

a boy sleeps on a bed of broken

sheets, a bar of light across his body.

The dark in his room is friendly

as erasers. Grinning pencils

are leaning in the closet,

the shadow of a stuffed monkey

claps his hands. The laundry basket

rolls around laughing. And the room

simplifies. A wall becomes a line,

a chair a friendship. A belt buckle

disappears. Above him is a shadow

of a giant pair of hands, tousling

his feather hair, and the boy’s stick arms

are crooked, elbows bent, as if he is cradling

a bird.

 

Hanna Iruka Hall is eighteen years old and loves to read and write. Her work is forthcoming in Eunoia Review and has been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is fascinated by Medusa from Greek mythology, and would like to conduct a slime-mold experiment in her free time.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Summer 17: 12Poems

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