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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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start by pulling the threads tactfully unravel the words until syllables are sharp and pierce your rib cage until your heart is wet and spills crimson memorize them stamp them under your eyelids so you see them as you fall asleep and dream dreams that you wake from in a sweat let your stomach turn inside out so your guts and entrails spill out in front of you and stare up from your mess like a sick dog tail in between your legs you’ve turned a seed into a harvest and you suffocate beneath the soil you’ve dug yourself so deep you don’t know which way is up so you stay buried Devyn Stokdyk is 17 and going into her senior year of highschool. She lives in California. She's attended an Oxford writing program and Kenyon Young Writers program online. Comments are closed.
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