Aidan Stickles
Intyoour Place
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path the from
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and
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ripping
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then
root a over tritriptripping
landing
inttohe brush
(under) where
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when
way a finds why
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(bites scratches after
in covered are face legs arms your
and bruises.)
Remember, in your plasightsce
wonderfilled
.appear sights
A silver waterfall
flows intoa
powaterfallnd pink neon
with
five-legged frogs
hopping
.lilypads lilac on
(and
where trees compliment
(hands hands) two (mouths)
and hands three and mouths
alone
is a myth and good).
Its
to wish wont people place a
explore,
you must adventure
to
someone) before end the
else
will follow).
Aidan Stickles is a junior majoring in Psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York, where he also heads the creative writing club. Aidan’s interests include playing piano, singing karaoke, and making faces in the mirror. His work has appeared in journals such as North Star Literary-Arts Magazine, Street Cake Magazine, and Outrageous Fortune.