The Bluestocking 2023-24

Anonymous Grade 12 rest:

allow me one more dream, as i succumb to the will of the earth,

to smell morning dew clinging to freshly-cut grass, kissed by the rising sun—

encased and buried, i welcome silence and forget life

as dandelions bloom from my dirt-caked fingernails, and roots burrow

into a body, with nothing left to give

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