TEENAGE POEMS

Mixed Emotions

Inside I'm crying
Outside I'm smiling
No one notices
But it's hard for me to control this
.....

Flourish Future

Motion Sickness

I am tired of the heave and swell,
the deep lunge in the belly, the gut's
dumb show of dance and counterdance,
sway and pause, the pure jig of nausea
.....

B H Fairchild

Head, Perhaps Of An Angel

limestone, with traces of polychrony, c. 1250

Point Dume was the point,
he said, but we never came close,
.....

Debora Greger

Half Naked Without A Hat

One hot summer day
At the carnival
I saw the teenage boy
Who had a big crush
.....

Rose Marie Juan Austin

Snow White's Acne

At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice,
or a fleck of her mother's red nail polish that had flaked off
when she'd patted her daughter to sleep the night before.
But as she scrubbed, Snow felt a bump, something festering
.....

Denise Duhamel