How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Megann - Anticipation

You pack your bags and move on out 
with your stuffed rabbit and your striped sweater
and follow that crowded street to mystery 
farther
         and farther
                         away from 
the skylight and the curved metal of the bridges
the bleach white dome and the Mississippi

you take your striped sweater and you stretch it over your eyes 
and cry on that black top road to nowhere. 

months pass and anticipation fades your second-hand foreign uniform 
your forced white tennis shoes are gray
tomorrow is homecoming day

you pack your bags and move on out
with your stuffed rabbit and your striped sweater
and follow that crowded street back 
                                                                  home. 

Megann, age 16
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