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Literary Journal for Young Writers

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Through the Camera Lens

By Emily Lu

 

The girl freezes—suspended
in the air, barely skimming

the lake’s surface. Time
is still. The water loses

its fluidity, its ebb and flow,
becoming a pane of glass,

tinted blue like the summer sky
but rough and unpolished,

the ripples jutting out
like ridges, sharp as glass shards

ready to impale. But the girl
still hovers above, caught

in time’s grasp,
immortal.

 


Emily Lu is currently a sophomore at New Trier High School. She has been writing poetry for three years and attended creative writing courses at the Northwestern Center for Talent Development. Her writing has previously appeared in BALLOONS Literary Journal and Paper Swans Press.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: February 2019

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