3 Poems
Piper S.
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STUNT is about childhood/adolescence and how throughout mine, I have always been very shy, but I have also always loved to move, and how it worries me sometimes, that I am not participating enough. It's also about young curiosity and sensitivity, and how we are observing everything all the time and much slower when we are younger, we spend a lot of time sad about the things we don't get to do and thinking about the things we want to do.
NOTES FROM MY SUMMER SIMMER is about the summer before high school, I was going through a lot of changes and I kept getting these awful burns, it felt like the apocalypse. A lot of the lines are cut from my journal I was writing in over the summer, sort of cut and paste in and then I filled in the blanks, hence the title.
ANNUAL DRAG I wrote it as it began to get cold, I was coming out of a summer that had fried my shoulders as well as my brain, and it felt like suddenly I could think again. I wrote this poem thinking about the planet too, noticing these things on the drive home and the way to school that reflect the way we are treating out planet, my stress on this. It's also about this sadness that I usually feel around this time of year, ""annual drag"", its this oddly comforting sadness, just because it's so clear, and pure, I revel in it, even if it brings me down.
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Exploring creativity allows me to wrestle with this discomfort of not being able to see everything all at once, I think I feel so many things and I can't keep track of what and where they are, and I think that makes me nervous, so putting it down in front of me as words, something to look at, helps.
