Reid@YWP

it has been raining for two days.

i wonder when it will end

this grand deluge

or perhaps it is the end?

Filled with the sweet rays of possibility, 

I celebrate the place I've found in this sun speckled spot. 

Alongside me 

those I've tied my soul to, 

unafraid, for once, of judgement. 

On September 2 of 2022, I packed three short sleeve shirts, two long sleeve shirts, and four pairs of pants into a backpack and left my house in Sharon, VT, for four months on an intensive expedition semester school: Kroka Expeditions’ L

The pool is open, did you not hear? 

There’s a banner in town advertising it. 

Summer hasn’t yet slipped from my fingertips. 

I almost want to cry 

Color winds its way through souls –  

plant stems, the lick of a warm breeze, snow, flames that flicker high, painted in 

red, the color of roses 

as well as blood, 

When only the stars shine, 

the winds’ whispered rhyme 

echos across the land  

as the sea longs for the moon. 

The magnetic pull 

weaves their fates together,