Solitaire - Skylar Dannan

I am a rising sophomore from Cazenovia, New York with an intended biochemistry major. I love all things artsy, especially drawing, music, and poetry! I’m in Pitch Please Acapella here on campus, and lift weights almost daily in my free time. I love writing and thinking romantically and taking inspiration from nature. Something that greatly inspires me to write is my belief that finding beauty in everything and romanticizing life is one of the best ways to stay motivated and stable in our complicated and difficult world. 

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Well here we are...

Among the stars,

Among the streets with racing cars,

This is something

I haven’t had

Before her.

Sitting there.

Sand in her hair;

Moon in her eyes;

Her hands on my thighs,

And she’s mine.

Well, not perfectly so-

-but in our own way,

The way that we know

But how could we know?

If it’s something so new...

Do we trust it will grow

As our hopefulness grew?

The grass breathes where she layed,

And it coughs

Its cheeks grayed

The grass grieves where she layed,

And it dies.

Every blade.

It grieves

Its color green

And her touch.

It grieves its envy

Or it’s soul-

-Or whatever... as much

As it can,

As much as a patch

Of gray grass,

Could latch to abstract,

It does.

For how could something

Be as perfect

As this