Past the burning day,
at bedtime when I shrug off sleep,
when I’ve got school the next morning, and I shouldn’t be here,
I sit down and press play, and the noise starts, and the colors fly up around me, and
cities erect and destroy themselves as the songs start and end.
I fall in.
I fall in deep.
This week’s Young Writers Project entry is “Fall in,” by Will Helms, 16, of Hardwick and an intern with The Hardwick Gazette. Art is “Amazon After Hours,” by Meredith Rocke, 15, of West Rutland. Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at [email protected]; (802) 324-9538.
