Creature [POETRY]
Lexi Markham
April 16, 2025
Dear forgotten friend My heart is a foreign creature to me sometimes It has a memory separate from mine Inside the bloody veins of the
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Dear forgotten friend My heart is a foreign creature to me sometimes It has a memory separate from mine Inside the bloody veins of the
Through the lens of a decade, I’ve watched the education system mold and morph before my eyes. / Those two eyes, brown and bold, unchanging
When I was 15 I learned about an all time great American film: the birth of a Nation
In that I was taught the
Sleeping. it looks like you’re sleeping i wonder what you dream of as everyone around you is weeping Silence. the room is silent because
“trace the sky’s scars” I want to write a love poem to my ghost, but I do not like her. my phone case is a
I said goodbye to my family, I said goodbye to my dog, I said goodbye to the home I once was a part of A
For some time, I was ashamed of my own name. The length, the complexity It was all too much to explain. Many would call it
My Escape As I look through the reflective glass I think I think of all the pain it’s caused me I think of how my
Friends, there is a miracle for praise to be! For the Goddess of Justice can finally see! With the balancing scales in her right hand,
Twenty-two degrees; The doctor is certain when he says I think it’s scoliosis Sometimes I sit, I am a bird on a traffic line, completely unbothered
