We Cannot Look Away: Not another 17, not another One

Just another day just another town bullet perforated backpacks spilling loose-leaf lined paper, textbooks onto blood stained sidewalks helicopters hovering to give us the birds eye view I tried to avert my eyes out of respect for the dead the injured but I could not look away Christine Ray Even though I should Because I

Stirring- a Collaborative Poem from Christine Ray, Aurora Phoenix, and Kindra M. Austin

Your swift flowing water Elusive, quicksilver Brushes past my shores Licking my roughing grains burgeoning a flash flood Tributaries cut into earth New veins carry fresh lifeblood Awakening me from long slumber longing rippling outward concentric circles lapping by turns urgent and languid your ebb begets my flow See the colors of infant life sprouting