"Your bespeckled fish went flitting over the Scattered multitudes of their own offspring, In the rocks, and when the cold had numbed my body, I felt I was a part of Colorado, Disembodied marrow of the mountain’s rib." - Colorado, David Grandouiller

"those letting scars breathe and breathing for the first time in too long mending sanity at peace with death excited for rebirth" - Ode to the Healing, Jazmine Ellington

"Fear of releasing my mind Emotions restricted Now completely inclined But truth was conflicted" - East Coast Maroon, Lo

"I fell down and sat on your window, Peering inside your frame, And saw that I was to blame For all the things that refuse to grow." - Dew Drop, Allison Walden

"But she is lost to me as I think about the future, both of us dying in a land we don’t belong. And the far away refrain becomes static. please call I worry please call" - Skin, Michelle Pretorius

"You are FOUND—in the “Om”—the source of your home where the trumpets sound and the drums are pounding... It’s all within your very own heartbeat." - Searching for Home, Sariana Haven Dae

"It’ll never look like the rest of your body. It will look like survival, like humanity— fragile and powerful." - Scar Tissue, Hope Madden

"In the moment, I don’t care what the others see— I appreciate the ounces of warmth seeping into me. Something is lacking, so I trade warmth for comfort: a warmth for me." - Winter Winds, Nikolas Leasure

"His tire treads, they buttoned up the dirt as Alabama shifted through the gears. The press of pedals raking up her skirt to half-moon scars that count the rush of years." - Alabama, Kacie Prologo

"I can feel them, twisting and turning and pulling me under until the only thing left to do is open the floodgates." - Three Acts, Devon M. Ertle

"Resilient as a rubberband when it comes to you. You’re a long day that I’m always stuck thinking about. I just remain hopeful, and I know you will shoot me a sign. When you realize that we have time." - [realization to reality], Elana Justine Zambori

From "The Differences Between Lilac Blossom and A Thousand Wishes," by Sarah Donkin, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

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