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Details of Life

August 3, 2016
By Yoela PLATINUM, Seattle, Washington
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Yoela PLATINUM, Seattle, Washington
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Favorite Quote:
"My powers stretch over the horizon and work even when my eyes are closed"

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She said “vivid detail”

And I thought about a dead

    tree on a yellow hill

    reaching to a blue sky

I saw children running and

screaming, and parents

    chuckling softly and

calling out warnings

I heard the progression of life.

    I do not want to be okay

    it is not death I fear but

losing my mind

    creatively

    dreaming

    despair

© Amanda O., Weymouth, MA

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