Owasso High School, Friday Night
for Nex Benedict
empty classroom
cast in red
as the February sun
sets over Tulsa hills
outside the window
an assembly of clouds
in purple and yellow:
daydreamer’s
playground
for a child
who could not
be contained
whose seat
will be empty
come Monday
because we tried
Julia Ross (she/her) is a poet and educator living in Austin, TX. She writes about parenthood, agnosticism, art & music, and the sociopolitical hellscape known as Texas. Recently, her writing has appeared in The New Verse News and Equinox.
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