Small towns grow big stories
in the cracks between the sidewalk, in the silence
between words, the ones we fill
with what we do not know.
We have heard sirens call
from static, read novels
from paragraphs, built lives
out of fantasies.
We have bloomed too bold
for tepid sunlight and gentle
breaths of earth-
We are prodigies of steel
and sugar, the ghosts
of cities not yet seen and of
devotions not yet lived. Now,
We find no stories left untold
and lie on our backs, sinking
into the ceiling, hoping to transform
through our own alchemy.
An army of children, straining to grow up,
waiting for the world to move.
Dana is a high school senior who lives in Massachusetts. As a lover of language, she works as a staff member on Polyphony HS and Window Seat. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, as well as published on Kingdoms in the Wild.