
VOX Teen Poetry: Watch Me Collect Dust
I hope one day a heavy book with my name on it rests on your coffee table next to all
Carmen Weishan Herold, 17, attends Dekalb School of the Arts, majoring in creative writing and minoring in media and film! She is the President of Graphic Novel Club at her school and collects queer comics in her free time! She is completely obsessed with drag queens and has watched every single season of RuPaul’s Drag Race!
I hope one day a heavy book with my name on it rests on your coffee table next to all
My mother is a baker, a young, bubbly baker, Her and her twin sister skip down the paved roads. all
She fades in and out of existence. Her violet hair pierces through the warmth of spring. She only appears when
My arms shake and my heart races. Time swoops down from the sky, flaunting its feathers in front of my
The sun whispers sweet nothings in the flower’s ear for all the rabbits and birds to hear. The flower stretches