2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College

Poetry
Honorable Mention
Erin Brooks
She used to plant daffodils
wearing white Keds.
I remember the sound
of her metal spade
slicing through earth,
the careful scooping
of her hands in gardening gloves,
Narcissus
black bits of earth scattered across the sidewalk—
and running over
to sink my bare hands
before she covered her bed
of treasures with pine needles,
asking,
when will the flowers come
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