Perception Spring 2023

When you tell the wolves I'm
home
Kaitlin LaRosa
I will not ask you for your excuses.
No detailed Doctor’s Note asking for
insurance against myself and
assurance that I needed saving in the first place.
Doctors don’t prescribe aloe vera — not the good ones anyways
and besides, I have always cut through burns myself.
Nothing is complex about
sugar cubes fitting into mason jars
or cookie-cutter stairs to the —
When you tell the Stars I’m home,
tell them I’ve missed their twinkle at night.
Tell the Wolves that I used to shine once too but that
iridescent blades do the trick when daylight needs its saving hour
and all we have is
strikes against the clock
and a pocketful of sunshine
to be our saving grace this time. Or so,
I thought.
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Light the Night
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