Emma is a freshman at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She is an intended conservation/environmental science major and loves to write poetry in order to express her joys and pains through art.
They cut down Prometheus to
prove that we were trying, acting as
organ donor for our
self-fulfilling anxieties,
we have decided that we are
to conquer the ancients,
our own personal Orélie-Antoine
but there is no one else here to
declare our insanity, for
when Methuselah burns,
He has left us for the flames
The tree has moved. Clara is sure of it. She presses her nose to the classroom window.
The elder tree stands at the edge of the playing fields, dark and gangly. Like it's watching them. Yesterday it
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