Xanadu
 

A man smoking a cigarette late at night; The locomotive blows its steam.

A pitcher on the mound staring down the batter; A lone wolf eyeing down his prey.

A toddler tumbles forward through long grass, laughing; Sunlight bursting past the clouds, arms outstretched

A girl yelling loudly at her sister; The tapping of a pen on a desk in a silent room.

Silhouetted against the wall is my mother. My mother taught me all the things that matter in this world, pastries in the shapes of...

You walk all over me. Your feet pavemented through my soul. You don’t think about me. You just walk. What are you without me? Dirt. Soil....

Dad brings me outside one summer afternoon. The blazing hot sun burning me like my head is in the oven. I don’t know why I’m out here. My...

Alone, I prepared myself for my first concert in the fifth grade pulling my clothes out of the closet. My hands shaking, my stomach...

No really? What I say, every time my mom says, it is what it is. At Gold Medal Gymnastics, one of my last meets, I fell off the beam....

I became the tightly spun football out of Tom Brady’s hand, dropped and lost by the receiver. Applications due, essays due, and...