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Posted on 12.02.18 by VoiceCatcher

Poetry by Grace Tran

they walked in circles for miles 
at a time

hoping
that they would somehow
find an end, or perhaps 
             come across a beginning - 

waves of dullness flushing
             over them        shivering

wondering: why is every 
             day the same? 

shaking the roots of trees                     ragged stumps 
	to make the apples 
grow faster 

withering bones and skin                     monotony
	flesh curling like potato peels

time vanishing before their eyes                     restless 
	as they slowly marched forward 

 leaves falling before them
             then disappearing             a magic trick 
             into the winter night - 

mindless, 
thoughtless, 
they walked themselves into the 
ground

descending        weightless 
             silent.

Grace Tran has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was a 2017/2018 national and “Best of Issue” winner of the American High School Poets “Just Poetry” quarterly contest. She has been both a runner-up and fiction grand prize winner of the Scholastic Kids are Authors contest. She has also had works appear and forthcoming in The Pangolin Review and Polyphony H.S.

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