"The Life of a Cicada" is page numero dos in this semester's issue. Looking back on it, though, it doesn't really need that 4th stanza.

With what kind of voice
would the spider cry
in the autumn wind?

"Toothbrush" made it into one of the W&M lit mags, jump! Apparently, someone is going to read it and it's going to be on the website as a preview of the magazine

Honestly it's not my favorite poem, but, you know, i'm grateful for anything

Thanks jump!

What's more inspiring--

something (such as a flower or a mountain range or a flood of traffic)

or the THOUGHT of that something?

the term AM is flawed. this is NOT the morning.

creativity is so poignant at 4:17 AM.